Corruption Quotes - Page 8

• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.25, Modern Library

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• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

  Algernon Sidney

  Liberty, Arbitrary, Vices

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• It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

  Charles Ferguson

  Creating, Culture, Behaviour

  "Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis". www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

  Robert Maxwell

  Scandal, Havens

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• Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

  Li Jinhua

  Loss, Serious, Problem

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• We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Kindness, Government, Self

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• What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

  Andrew Napolitano

  Lying, Jail, Government

  "Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History". Book by Andrew Napolitano, www.foxnews.com. 2010.

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• The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

  William Greider

  Government, Political, Dollars

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

  Charles Simeon

  Men, Soul, Doe

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• The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Reality, Church, President

  Daniel Ellsberg (1972). “Papers on the war”, Pocket

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• Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.

  Michael Lewis

  Dog, Cat, Pet

  "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World". Book by Michael Lewis, 2011.

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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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Safety, Rothschild

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Fruit, Worms

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

  Julian Assange

  Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

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• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  Ed Koch

  New York, Law, Knives

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• I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

  Nestor Kirchner

  Country, Want, Return

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• Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Dream, Government, Justice

  "Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 20), 1952.

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• The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

  Linda Tripp

  Loyalty, Party, Firsts

  "Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

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• My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

  George Weah

  Government, Law, Boots

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• As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

  Margaret Carlson

  Block, Joy, Half

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• I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

  Richard J. Needham

  Looks, World, Magnificence

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• Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  Bruce Kent

  Organization, Awful, Manipulation

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• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Christian, Innocence, Sin

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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