CORRUPTION QUOTES

quotations about corruption

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

EDWARD GIBBON

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


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


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


Corruption is the flesh that covers every bone.

CHUKWUEMEKA E. ONYEJINDUAKA

6,000 Proverbs and Quotes of Chukwuemeka E. O.


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


If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

BOB MARLEY

Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley


Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

PAUL PARK

A Princess of Roumania


The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry -- chock full of it.

JAMES MONTGOMERY BAILEY

Life in Danbury


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


Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


I have seen corruption boil and bubble 'til it oerrun the stew.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Measure for Measure


I read all the papers
Whad did I see?
Page to page corruption
Thank god it's not me

THE LIVING END

"Headlines", Hellbound


Corruption wins not more than honesty.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VIII


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


Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas.

MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Twitter post, ildanquotations


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


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


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