Corruption Quotes - Page 7

The corruption of the best is the worst.

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

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh...It is a very small amount for a central minister.

I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to experience it as an opportunity cost. I live in Washington, DC, where the city council is notoriously corrupt. But how do I experience that? Maybe in streets that are not as well paved as they could be, maybe in a bridge that costs a lot more money than it should have. That's a little bit abstract - shocking, of course - but still abstract.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.