Quotes About Corruption

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.

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Those who think life is a competition become corrupt.

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

George Bernard Shaw once quipped that politicians can always rely on Paul's vote if they give him money that they steal from Peter. This understates the problem with democracy because Paul is an old man and Peter is either a child or unborn.

Berlusconi is us," as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.

For now I seePeace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

When men competed for positions of power, it was generally acknowledged that the ones who got it were invariably the ones who could least be trusted with it.

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

Foreign influence in domestic politics could be deadly to any democracy.

When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach our children to emulate people who live unbalanced lives, and when we define huge sections of the population as subservient to an elite minority, we ask for trouble. And we get it.

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish that, the gospel is diminished. And you cannot diminish the gospel without being diminished yourself.

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won't fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.

Interpreting the verses as referring to the Catholic Church or, as one writer conjectured – to "corrupt Christianity" in the last days, is fraught with problems, as there is no "mother" of the Church in the world today who would be distressed by its fall.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

This kind of thing is happening here in Al-Ahram all the time. It's very difficult to keep your hands clean. There are journalists in this building who have done just that. I know it for a fact. They get apartments. Not exactly as gifts, of course. But take that apartment for half a million: The journalist will 'buy' it for one hundred thousand, then sell it for the market price and make a huge profit.

corruption in Egypt is giant, amorphous, and finally ungraspable.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

Virtually every politician portrayed in film or on television over the last decade has been venal, corrupt, opportunistic, cynical, if not worse. Whether these dramatized images are accurate or exagerated matters little. The corporatist system wins either way: directly through corruption and indirectly through the damage done to the citizen's respect for the representative system. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)