Corruption Quotes - Page 14

• Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Law, Poverty

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• Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Wings, Credit

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.234

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• People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

  Mike Huckabee

  Wall, Tired, People

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• Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

  Steven Levitt

  Inquiry, Purity, Mask

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• Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Corporations, Social, Obligation

  Speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, May 19, 2005.

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• A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Weakness, Movement

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.503, Harvard University Press

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• Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

  Pope Francis

  Giving Up, School, Broken

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby

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• The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Lust, Gold

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.328

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• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Greed

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

  Will Rogers

  Acceptance, Keeping Promises, Greed

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.

  James Wolfensohn

  Past, Bystanders, Hands

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• We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost everywhere there seems to me to be an increase in incompetence and general dishonesty. This is what I mean about democracy - you feel that you've got the ability to arrange things and influence matters and it's not quite so easy as that, I'm afraid.

  Colin Dexter

  Mean, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: strandmag.com

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• Divinity is the elementary personality of a human being. When he can stand before corruption and win, that is an undivided personality. It is called divinity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Winning, Past, Personality

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

  Helen Caldicott

  Running, Work, World

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• If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Ifs

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.70, Modern Library

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• Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Compassion, And Love

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• When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.377, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, People, Joy

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• Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

  Richard Ebeling

  Democracy, Doe, Guarantees

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• Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Citizens, Lawlessness, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.144, Vintage

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• As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, Long, Faces

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• 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.

  Rory Carroll

  Venezuela, Cocaine, Neglect

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.

  Costa-Gavras

  Important, Saws, Becoming

  Source: progressive.org

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• It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.

  Thomas Paine

  Art, Mean, Successful

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