quotations about corruption
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
U.S. News & World Report, 1991
Can't fight corruption with con tricks
They use the law to commit crime
And I dread, dread to think what the future will bring
THE SPECIAL A.K.A.
Gangsters
What's more problematic is retail corruption, the almost inescapable web of corruption in the country, with a price list for almost every service the government provides.
RAVI VANKATESAN
Conquering the Chaos
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.
J.M. COETZEE
Giving Offense
After all, tackling corruption is like tackling an epidemic. It is not possible to quarantine one section alone.
N. VITTAL
Corruption in India: The Roadblock to National Prosperity
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
sonnet
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777