Corruption Quotes - Page 33

• Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.

  David Hume

  War, Loss, Luxury

  David Hume (1751). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.30

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• Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

  Franz Grillparzer

  House, Stupidity, Acres

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• I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Integrity

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

  John McCain

  Country, Money, Reality

  "Kerry, Lavrov agree to work on 'constitutional reform' in Ukraine". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. March 17, 2014.

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• During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hands, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.

  Ridley Scott

  Disappointment, Names, Evil

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Salt, Contradiction

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

  Rahman Baba

  World, Deeds, Fruit

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• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption

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• Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.

  John Adams

  Wise, People, Republic

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.

  John Locke

  Ambition, Hands, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, Essentials, Cracks

  ""Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You": Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.

  Sean Penn

  School, Years, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Reform

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.349

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• Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

  Ameen Rihani

  Errors, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

  John Knox

  Age, Battle, Youth

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• The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Influence, Vicious, Peddling

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

  Julian Assange

  Government, Transparency

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• Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Islamic, Views, Elements

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• I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

  Mark Shields

  Mean, Weekend, Vegas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Country, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Purity without balance is its own corruption.

  V. E. Schwab

  Balance, Purity

  V. E. Schwab (2015). “A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel”, p.193, Macmillan

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• The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

  Tom Brokaw

  Children, Fall, Ambition

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• Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could.

  Amy Lockwood

  Strong, Believe, Government

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• Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

  Dana Rosemary Scallon

  Memories, Regret, Accommodate

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