Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy Giuliani. Over a lifetime of excellent service, there's never been a hint of corruption in his behavior but everybody investigates him.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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

The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs.

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

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.