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Corruption Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.90, University of Virginia Press

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

"Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy". Book by Michael Soussan, November 4, 2008.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.169, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

"Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair". Interview With Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Edmund Burke (2015). “A Letter On the Affairs of America”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

C. J. Sansom (2008). “Dissolution: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.293, Pan Macmillan