13 quotes about Corruption



Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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I am against government by crony.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they don't come so high.
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