Corruption Quotes - Page 29

• We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Tired, Fighting, Pay The Price

  "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.wbur.org. March 22, 2015.

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• GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself.
  And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour.
  He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now.
  He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Oil, Years, Giving

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• Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.

  Laurie Garrett

  Ebola, Greed, Political

  Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.53

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• The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Jesus, Father, Nice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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• It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

  Mark Lawrence

  Flesh, Spirit, Purity

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.22, Penguin

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• Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

  Criss Jami

  Impact, Mind, Realizing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami

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• The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Humble, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.36, Criss Jami

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Justice, Political

  "Tincture of Lawlessness". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2009.

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• There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Men, Justice

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• The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hypocrisy, Support, Might

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• With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.

  James Madison

  Taken, Roots, Public Opinion

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• How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Law, Justice

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• In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Favors, Sells

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.275, Penguin

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• All things can corrupt perverse minds.

  Ovid

  Mind, All Things

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• The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wind, Soul, Sound

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

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• Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Political, Term Limits

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• That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Men, America, Years

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press

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• Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mother, Sex, Father

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”

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• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, People, Age

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 23, 1882.

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• Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Mind, Noble

  1676 Don Carlos, act 2.

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• Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Air, Cities

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.25

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• Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

  Jay Leno

  Retiring, Plans, Senate

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• Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

  James Joyce

  Ideas, Fire, Flames

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.138, Collector's Library

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