Corrupt Quotes

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

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