Corruption Quotes - Page 39

• Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Law, Justice, Legal System

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, America, Wealth

  "Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Talk THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YORK, Jack Nicholson, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2014.

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• Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Compromise, Remember

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Corruption is not a Canadian value!

  Stephen Harper

  Values

  "Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada". Book by William Johnson, 2009.

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• Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  New York, July, Knives

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.

  Jan Theuninck

  Ends, Terror

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• It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

  Robert Higgs

  Lines, Littles, Poverty

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• [There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.

  Julian Sanchez

  Cheating, Strong, Government

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• Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

  Paul Park

  Hate

  Paul Park (2006). “A Princess of Roumania”, p.223, Macmillan

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• Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  School, Years, Brain

  "Rebelling Within Nature". lesswrong.com. July 13, 2008.

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• The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

  James Montgomery Bailey

  Deceit, World

  James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.260

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• Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Force

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Political, Finals, Constitution

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Liberty, Facts, Conspiracy

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Envy, Leader, Problem

  "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks". Jimma Times, July 30, 2010.

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• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  B. W. Powe

  Virtue, Ultimate

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

  Lucy Stone

  Wall, Clothes, Atheism

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• I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Discipline, Political

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• The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

  Jonathan Swift

  Language, Introducing, Late

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1754). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.325

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• When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Hands, Abuse

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.213

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• I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Power, People

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• Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Drug, Decay

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.339, Delphi Classics

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• If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Honesty, Party, Army

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• On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  God, Signatures, Half

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• Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;
  Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Honesty, Hate

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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