Quotes on Corruption

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

Author: William Ames

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

Author: Julian Assange

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

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.

Author: Glenn Beck

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Author: Malcolm Bradbury

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

Author: James Buckley

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Author: Charles Colton

We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

Author: George Creel

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Author: Anthony Eden

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Author: Edward Gibbon

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

Author: Ian Hacking

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

Author: John Hooker

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

Author: David Hume

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

Author: Claudio Hummes

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Author: Jay Inslee

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Author: Harriet Jacobs

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Author: Ayatollah Khamenei

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Author: Imran Khan

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

Author: Nestor Kirchner

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Author: Karl Kraus

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

Author: Patrick McHenry

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Author: Bess Myerson

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Author: John Newman

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Author: Tacitus

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

Author: Linda Tripp

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Author: Morris West