Corruption Quotes

• Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

  Robert Zoellick

  Cancer, Scandal, Moral

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• To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Obligation, Highest

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Moral Corruption, Literature

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• When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Self

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

  Edward Brooke

  Cancer, Government, People

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• No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Community, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Truth, Challenges

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Want

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• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Evil, Political, Mind

  "Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson", (p. 99), 1952.

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• Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

  George Richard Marek

  Crime, Conscience

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
  money began to play an important part in determining
  elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
  the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
  Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

  Plutarch

  Army, Play, Law Courts

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• 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, Men

  Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man

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• Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Winning, Love Thyself

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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• Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

  Peter Eigen

  Real, Two, Differences

  "Corruption Still Rampant In 70 Countries, Says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005". www.transparency.org. October 18, 2005.

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• The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Drawing, Teeth, Civil Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.40, Rowman & Littlefield

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Our Society, Society Today, Corny

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria. President (1999-2007 : Obasanjo) (2007). “Standing tall 2”

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• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

  Carl Sagan

  Taken, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.314, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Children, Believe, Fighting

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• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, War

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Snow, Rolling Along, Moral Corruption

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Men, Intellectual

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