Corruption Quotes

• No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Community, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Character

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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  When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Believe

  Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)

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• In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

  Shekhar Kapur

  India

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Moral Corruption, Literature

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• When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

  Edward Brooke

  Cancer, Government, People

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• Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

  Robert Zoellick

  Cancer, Scandal, Moral

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• To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Obligation, Highest

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• When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Self

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Government

  P J O'Rourke (1992). “Parliament of Whores-Open Mark”, Vintage Books USA

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• Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Privilege, Moral

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• To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, Deceit, Fists

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Truth, Challenges

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• Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

  George Richard Marek

  Crime, Conscience

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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Family, Beautiful

  "Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents". Book by Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (p. 144), 2004.

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• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Evil, Political, Mind

  "Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson", (p. 99), 1952.

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• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Long, People, Political

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 71

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Market Efficiency, Regulation

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• I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of the state. The only reasonable way to correct the situation today is not to go after big businesses, but to give breathing room to medium and small businesses. That means protecting citizens and small entrepreneurs from arbitrary rule and from corruption. It means investing the revenues from the national natural resources into the national infrastructure, education and health care. And we must learn to do so without shameful theft and embezzlement.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

  David Brin

  Power, Favourite, Said

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Sweetest

  Sonnet 35

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