Quotes of: Corruption Keyword

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

Studs Terkel

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt

I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated t...

Clayton Christensen

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Edmund Wilson

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

William Gaddis

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

1984

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John F. Lehman, Jr.

This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: personal, targeted, involving suitcases. We really need...

Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

Silvia Hartmann

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come by – even men in those circumstances have sex with other men and abuse children. Look at the Catholic Church! Man i...

Mouth

Even as I took a long, hard look at some of the obvious downsides (Q: 'What are the three things keeping India down? A: Corruption, corruption and corruption.' ), I still felt the upsides (Q: 'What is so fantastic about the India story? A: People, pe...

Superstar India

A proof once established is better left so.

The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Mo Ibrahim

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

Anonymus

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations; it was seen as blocking India’s modern, global ambitions. But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, ...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Puberty corrupts - that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that’s the concern.

Manan

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

George Deacon