Always Quote by Zephyr Teachout

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

— Will Rogers

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

— Catherine the Great

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

— Ayn Rand

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter

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

— Ronald Frame

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn…

— William C. Bryant

There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.

— Zephyr Teachout

Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.

— Zephyr Teachout

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be…

— Beau Willimon

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

— Nuseir Yassin

“If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and popularity.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

— Willem Dafoe