Corruption Quotes III

CORRUPTION QUOTES III

quotations about corruption

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes

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The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.

XENOPHON

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Corruption always hurts somebody.

GODFREY HARRIS

Corruption: How to Deal with Its Impact on Business and Society

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The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.

IAIN PEARS

An Instance of the Fingerpost

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No nation will run away from corruption when the devil is the kingmaker.

CHUKWUEMEKA E. ONYEJINDUAKA

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

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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

EDMUND BURKE

letter to the sheriffs of Bristol, 1777

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Père Goriot

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At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

ALEXANDER POPE

Moral Essays

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'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst
That the best things corrupted, are the worst;
'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd
Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;
That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)
Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

JOHN DENHAM

Progress of Learning

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I tend to hold the view that corruption is like indigestion. It is a symptom and not a disease.

M. KILONZO

Kenya National Assembly Parliamentary Debate, March 19, 2003

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I see corruption so largely rewarded that I doubt not that I should thrive in the world, could I get but a dispensation for my conscience for the liberty of trading.

ARTHUR WARWICK

Spare Minutes

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Without strong watchdog institutions, impunity becomes the very foundation upon which systems of corruption are built. And if impunity is not demolished, all efforts to bring an end to corruption are in vain.

RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM

Global Corruption Report, 2001

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Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

WALTER GOODMAN

attributed, Politicians and Other Scoundrels

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Accusing me of corruption is like arresting Mother Teresa because a little girl under her care stole an apple.

SILVIO BERLUSCONI

attributed, The Sack of Rome: Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi

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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

Practical Agitation

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Corruption is man's inheritance.

ANACLETUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech, Apr. 14, 1906

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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity.