Corrupt Quotes

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson

Become, Another, Shall

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Him, Youth, Hold

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran

Fear, Path, Blood

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, State

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Government, Democracy, Few

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Power, However

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy, Few, Election

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus

State, Laws, Numerous

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke

Long, Liberty, Cannot

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Thought, Language, Corrupts

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power, Corrupts, Absolute

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Power, Fear, Loss

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. Wilson

Science, Mind, Political

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
Paul Ryan

Capitalism, Economics, Prosperity

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague

Freedom, Mind, Human

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov

Faith, May, Him

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, End, Last

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant

Poor, Between, Difference

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid

Evil, Minds, Prone

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Happiness, Enemy, Less

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

Time, End, Long

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. Gardner

Men, Live, Integrity

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
James Bryant Conant

Behavior, Correct, Surface

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Mind, Evil, Public

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.
Jay Weatherill

Strong, Fashion, Action

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe

Become, Ignorant, Incapable

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus

State, Laws, Multiplied

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton

Power, Corrupts, Absolute

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David Ogilvy

May, Yes, Majority

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