Quotes About Corruption

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Absolute power demoralizes.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?