Corruption Quotes
Democracy elects men totally lacking in scruples, without any morals; those who will pay better, thus those with a higher power of corruption; magicians, charlatans, demagogues, who will excel in their fields during the electoral campaign. Several good men would be able to slip through among them, even politicians of good faith. But they would be the slaves of the former.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Albert Einstein
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
Samuel Johnson
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
Jim Hightower
As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.
Steve Forbes
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.
Idi Amin Dada
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton
There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.
Aidan White
The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies
Samuel P. Hays
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption
Kurt Cobain
