Quotes About Corruption

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Great men are almost always bad men.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.