Corruption Quotes - Page 4
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
Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.21
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.
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.169, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.
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
C. J. Sansom (2008). “Dissolution: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.293, Pan Macmillan