Quotes with corruption

  • Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
  • Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
  • For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
  • A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
  • When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
  • In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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  • Bernard Bailyn 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;
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 132
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
    Source: Speech in Urbana, Illinois (1951)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • W. H. Auden As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Pope Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John F. Kennedy Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Karl Kraus Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Eden Corruption never has been compulsory.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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  • Edward Gibbon Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Bruce Springsteen For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • William Shakespeare I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard J. Needham I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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  • Andrew Jackson I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Abdul Kalam If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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