Corruption Quotes - Page 17

• There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Two, Optimism

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• It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

  Martin Scorsese

  Interesting, Political, Crime

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beauty, Forever, Secret

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.41

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• For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Responsibility, Trying, Decay

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• Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

  James Surowiecki

  Self, People, Reform

  "The Tyrant Tax". www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Nineteen, Attention

  "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.

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• There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Thinking, Government

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

  Matt Taibbi

  Way, Construction, Has Beens

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

  Matt Taibbi

  Years, Bankers, News

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law.
  By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rights, Controversial Topics, Law

  "Ai Weiwei: Despite flaws, America should be proud" by Ai Weiwei, www.cnn.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Agony, Evil

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• A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Party, Media, Political

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• It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loneliness, Bereavement, Bitter

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• Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Men, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Errors, Race, Long

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.237, Modern Library

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• I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

  Douglas Coupland

  War, Ambition, Greed

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• If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Religious, Book

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• The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

  William James

  War, Party, Writing

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ancient, Ancient Times, Perceive

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• Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

  Francine Rivers

  Gone, Salt, Emptiness

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.495, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

  Alfred de Musset

  Art, Blood, Water

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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  Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

  William Wilberforce

  Quality, Selfishness, Fruit

  William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424

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• I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Patriotic, Successful

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

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

  Mother Teresa

  Women, Cancer, Evil

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Men

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

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