Quotes About Corruption

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.