quotations about corruption
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry -- chock full of it.
JAMES MONTGOMERY BAILEY
Life in Danbury
The mistake you make, don't you see, is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself.
GEORGE ORWELL
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Corruption is the flesh that covers every bone.
CHUKWUEMEKA E. ONYEJINDUAKA
6,000 Proverbs and Quotes of Chukwuemeka E. O.
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.
THOMAS PAINE
The Crisis
As the world changes, the forms of corruption also gradually become more cunning, more difficult to point out--but they certainly do not become better.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Works of Love
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
The Rector of Justin
Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
PAUL PARK
A Princess of Roumania
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
BOB MARLEY
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
I read all the papers
Whad did I see?
Page to page corruption
Thank god it's not me
THE LIVING END
"Headlines", Hellbound
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
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Corruption wins not more than honesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VIII
I have seen corruption boil and bubble 'til it oerrun the stew.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
SAUL ALINSKY
"Of Means and Ends", Rules for Radicals
The corruption that most citizens experience, and which is most disruptive on a daily basis, is frequently called "petty," as distinct from "venal" or "grand" corruption. Petty corruption is annoying, but for people in a hurry or for people who don't want to stand in the same queue over and over, it is expedient.
ROBERT I. ROTBERG
The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
The worst disease in the world today is corruption. And there is a cure: transparency.
BONO
TED Talk, March 14, 2013
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind.
EMILE CIORAN
A Short History of Decay