Corruption famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
-- A. K. Antony -
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
-- Alan Bullock -
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
-- Alan Greenspan -
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
-- Alexander Pope -
The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.
-- Alexis Denisof -
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time
-- Amit Abraham -
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
-- Anna Lindh -
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
-- Aruna Roy -
If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
-- Ayn Rand -
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
-- B. W. Powe -
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
-- Ben Nicholson -
I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh...It is a very small amount for a central minister.
-- Beni Prasad Verma -
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
-- Bernard Madoff -
Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
-- Bertha Knight Landes -
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
-- Bess Myerson -
Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.
-- Brian E. Frosh -
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
-- C.J. Sansom -
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
-- Charles Baxter -
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
We now have a national reputation for corruption.
-- Chris Redfern -
The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.
-- Chuck Todd -
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
-- Clive James -
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
-- David Baldacci -
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
-- David Hume -
Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.
-- Dean Cavanagh -
Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.
-- Dennis Kucinich -
The bigger the government, the greater the corruption
-- Dennis Prager -
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
-- Edmund Burke -
But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)
-- Faraaz Kazi -
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
-- Farhan Akhtar -
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
-- Frank Herbert -
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
-- G. Edward Griffin -
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
-- George Berkeley -
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.
-- George Papandreou -
Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
-- George Richard Marek -
Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.
-- George Richard Marek -
Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.
-- George Richard Marek -
There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria
-- Goodluck Jonathan -
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed
-- Gordon Clark -
Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.
-- Harry Markopolos -
Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption,
-- Harry Reid -
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
-- Iain Pears -
The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions
-- Ibrahim Ali -
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
-- Imran Khan -
Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
-- J. C. Ryle -
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.
-- James Montgomery Bailey -
It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.
-- Jan Theuninck -
Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
-- Joe Eszterhas -
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
-- John Dryden -
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
-- John Lyly -
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.
-- John Milton -
We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.
-- Josefina Vazquez Mota -
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.
-- Joseph Glanvill -
Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.
-- Joseph Muscat -
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
-- Joseph Wambaugh -
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
-- Julian Assange -
Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
-- K Hari Kumar -
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
-- Kailash Kher -
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
-- Kenneth Lay -
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
-- Lord Acton -
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
-- Louis Auchincloss -
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
-- Lyman Abbott -
It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.
-- Mark Foley -
It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh
-- Mark Lawrence -
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
-- Matt Taibbi -
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
-- Morris West -
We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital
-- Muhammadu Buhari -
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
-- Nong ?uc Manh -
Jonathan is one of the most corrupt Nigerians I ever investigated while at EFCC & his level of corruption even as deputy governor is just disturbing. PDP is just a disaster and a total failure. Change is the only panacea.
-- Nuhu Ribadu -
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
-- Paul Craig Roberts -
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.
-- Paul Ryan -
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
-- Paul Wolfowitz -
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
-- Pauline Kael
