Corruption Quotes

There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over the body and spirit of a human creature like himself, a creature created in the same image and subject to the same law of Christ; any man who has tasted this power, this boundless opportunity to humiliate most bitterly another being made in the image of God — becomes the servant instead of the master of his own emotions. Tyranny is a habit. It can and does eventually develop into a disease. I believe that the best of men may grow coarse, degrade to the level of a beast by sheer force of habit. Blood and power intoxicate one, they develop callousness and lust. The greatest perversions grow finally acceptable and even delicious to mind and heart. The man and the citizen perish in the tyrant for ever and the return to human dignity, remorse and spiritual rebirth becomes scarcely possible to him. Besides, the example and mere possibility of arbitrary power are contagious; they are indeed a great temptation. A society which regards such things calmly is already corrupt at the roots.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The bigger the corporation, the bigger the corruption. The more invisible the corporation, the more malicious it is.

~ Mango Wodzak

We can't just sit on our asses and not live our lives while we're trying to expose a corrupt government.

~ C.b. Lee

The word corruption does not arouse the moral revulsion that it should. We think of it as more a nuisance than a great evil. But corruption kills societies every bit as much as murder kills an individual. Moreover there is no hope for any society in which corruption is endemic. One final thought: Here in Cameroon, as elsewhere in Africa, the knowledgeable guides who lead tours of the slave centers note that Africans were deeply involved in the slave trade, and that without them, the slave trade could not have existed. If only this fact were taught as readily in American universities as it is here in Africa — not in order to minimize white complicity, but because universities should teach truth. Flawed human nature has no color.

~ Dennis Prager

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections, we must close all loopholes.

~ Vladimir Lenin

Clinton leaned in close, breath stinking. “I’m a well-compensated lawman, Reb. Let’s leave it at that. You’ll never prove anything else.” “You’re no lawman. You are a whore,” Tom growled.

~ C.g. Faulkner

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The corrupt begat corruption.

~ Steven Magee

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

if the roots are corrupt, no worthy fruits may erupt

~ Priyavrat Thareja

In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)

~ William Shakespeare

The depths cleared again. Something moved in them that was not a board. It rose slowly, with an infinitely careless languor, a long dark twisted something that rolled lazily in the water as it rose. It broke surface casually, lightly, without haste. I saw wool, sodden and black, a leather jerkin blacker than ink, a pair of slacks. I saw shoes and something that bulged nastily between the shoes and the cuffs of the slacks. I saw a wave of dark blond hair straighten out in the water and hold still for a brief instant as if with a calculated effect, and then swirl into a tangle again.

~ Raymond Chandler

Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government is going to win for sure. The opposition is in a total mess. So we just have to pay off the government, which is good for us.

~ Aravind Adiga

In Nigeria we must have the dream, believe the dream, live the dream and work to build the dream and then live corruption.

~ Saminu Kanti

All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.

~ Steven Magee

As well as a shared mentality, the Establishment is cemented by financial links and a 'revolving door' culture: that is, powerful individuals gliding between the political, corporate and media worlds - or who manage to inhabit these various worlds at the same time. The terms of political debate are in large part dictated by a media controlled by a small number of exceptionally rich owners, while think tanks and political parties are funded by wealthy individuals and corporate interests.

~ Owen Jones

A corruption of intentions.

~ Robert Ludlum

No global corruption scandal can be complete without mentioning Pakistani politicians.

~ Arzak Khan

It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.

~ Edward Luce

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

~ Kenneth Eade

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

~ Richard O'barry

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

~ Kenneth Eade

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics...

~ Thomas Piketty

protectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused to uphold my OSHA complaints and provide whistle-blower protection to me. My independent research leads me to understand that they uphold almost no OSHA whistle-blower complaints. It is very concerning that it seems like the same thing is happening with complaints made to Police Internal Affairs.

~ Steven Magee

The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We must stop calling corruption a “Nigerian factor”.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.

~ Sunday Adelaja

For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, largerphenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease oftime; life, again, a disease of matter.Then what is normal, what is healthy? Eternity? Which itselfis only an infirmity of God.

~ Emil M. Cioran

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

~ Bradley B. Dalina

How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

~ Brandon Sanderson

This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: personal, targeted, involving suitcases. We really need suitcases.

~ Mihir S. Sharma

Corruption is an inevitable by-product of the present structure of Nigeria's federalism. Once we restructure the polity into a true fiscal federalism, everything else will simply fall into place. Until then, corruption remains as official as it is legal in Nigeria.

~ Tony Osborg

Corruption is never compulsory.

~ Sheldon Vanauken

Love and Non – Violence cannot heal the wounds which corruption and injustice have caused.

~ Ashutosh Naliapara

We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.

~ James Rozoff

Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.

~ Auliq Ice