Corrupt Quotes

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler

Cannot, Public, Virtue

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr

Politics, Good, Beautiful

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
Matthew Simpson

Nature, Spring, Wrong

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Ed Markey

Human, Rights, President

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
James F. Cooper

Purpose, Party, Vicious

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
Tom Shadyac

Work, Ready, Communism

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Macklemore

Two, Understand, Voting

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Dennis Potter

May, Deal, Lead

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
Bruce Sterling

Money, Movies, Off

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius

Men, Father, Cannot

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub

Whatever, Youth, Adventure

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
Aravind Adiga

Money, Dad, Honest

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
Aravind Adiga

Men, Live, Corruption

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac

Life, Long, Thought

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Charles W. Pickering

Culture, Financial, Media

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
Charles Edward Merriam

America, Unique, City

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.
Bob Schaffer

Government, Tired, Revolution

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
Tim Ferriss

Money, Business, End

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.
Henrique Capriles Radonski

Happened, Governor, Previous

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
Laura Miller

Dreams, Money, Great

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.
James Patterson

Experience, Corruption, Law

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan Rudolph

Politician, Statement, Nick

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Work, Women, Honest

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.
Chuck Todd

Washington, Definitely, Voters

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
Jakaya Kikwete

Leadership, Through, Means

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Hall Caine

Life, Religion, God

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.
Pierre Moreau

Victim, Bank, Employees

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.
Jack Abramoff

Ignore, Same, React

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