Corruption Quotes

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam

Teacher, Beautiful, Mother

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Country, Show

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy

Power, War, Country

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

Challenge, Youth, Duty

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico

End, Fight, Justice

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson

Successful, Country, Liberty

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus

Country, Might, Individual

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies

Money, Tired, Working

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus

State, Laws, Numerous

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton

Snow, Once, Ball

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson

Great, Power, Strong

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Government, Business, Soon

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis

Democracy, Eyes, Idea

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu

Age, Young, Mature

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Wangari Maathai

Bad, Become, Issues

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov

Faith, Nature, Democracy

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Study, Exist, Phenomenon

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
Morris West

Vices, Members, Prone

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Justice, Dream, Communism

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon

Liberty, Infallible, Symptom

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen

Political, Why, Violence

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
James L. Buckley

Ambition, System, Democratic

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
Martin Scorsese

Political, Crime, Relevant

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume

Best, Worst, Rise

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee

Age, Wisdom, Children

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull

Dreams, Great, Society

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
Eric Cantor

Love, Money, Power

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich

Time, Truth, Government

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, Beauty, Food

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
Lauryn Hill

Greed, Compromise, Gifts

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