Quotes About Corruption

Now those scoundrels have started another rumor of Kent Covid variant through media to loot common men. There is no danger of Corona Virus in politicians rally where lakhs of people are called by paying wages from tax payers money and not seen even in farmers' protest

The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain. (Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp.

La Boétie, Anti-Dictator, pp. 43–44. Whenever a ruler makes himself dictator . . . all those who are corrupted by burning ambition or extraordinary avarice, these gather around him and support him in order to have a share in the booty and to constitute themselves petty chiefs under the big tyrant. 11

Furthermore, those seeking government privileges, or lucrative posts in the bureaucracy, perform an economic role entirely different from that of people genuinely engaged in trade; those so engaged oppose interference with their trade. It is highly misleading to lump the two together into the term "merchants.

For a moralless people, everything is made to serve immoral purposes.

A good education or democracy must start at home. Even the juridical department can still be filled with the corrupt minds.

A nation becomes undeveloped as the result of corruption and lack of educational development.

Africa is not a dirty continent, it is just filled with disorganized government figures.

Change can't be expected to happen without keeping the republic free and uncorrupted.

Corruption can slow down and prevent business growth, but it cannot stop the world from rotating.

Corruption will forever remain corrupt; unless we go much further to understand its true meaning and source.

Deceit or anything that involves self-deception is the source of corruption within an individual.

Deceit, fraud and corruption can emerge anywhere within the nation and most of the times it comes from the top, the ruling elites.

Even in some republic nations they still fail to question the motives of their leaders who have gone astray or try to corrupt the nation.

Morality has got nothing to do with the politicians. Simply, because the straight line is considered by them as the longest distance between the two points.

My African leaders have a dilemma of clinging too much on power for their own personal gains.

Once the mind chooses the path of corruption, then the soul will also follow along, it will become corrupted too.

Poverty seems to be the root of all evil. Whereas the children of rich parents are spoiled daily.

The corrupt leader does not care about the morals or ethics of life. His senses have been blinded by greed and self-interest.

The corrupted mind has no true friend and whatever he does it will be only to his own benefit.

The corrupted politician or leader is judged by his wealth.

The deserving ones are not employed while those who are incapable are enjoying all the wealth of the nation. This is the first chapter of corruption.

The fact that the Vatican has its own banking system proves that money is not the root of all evil.

The majority of African leaders, past and present, have fallen in love with the seat of the presidency. They are unwilling to leave their personal interests outside the door.