Quotes About Corruption

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.