Corruption Quote by Thomas Paine

“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract…

— Frank Herbert

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

— Barbara Tuchman

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such…

— Andrew Jackson

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally,…

— Roger B. Taney

“The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them…

— J.G.A. Pocock

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only…

— Howard Nemerov

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man…

— Terence Rattigan

What we do have is a system in which power tends to be awarded to people on the basis that they are corruptible.

— Bret Weinstein

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

— Ronald Frame

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible…

— Robert Payne