Quotes of: Corruption Keyword

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.

Joseph Addison

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

They say power corrupts, but most of the time it's actually faulty storage media.

John Alejandro King

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.

George Weah

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy ena...

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

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

Robert Anton Wilson

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Barry Eisler

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

Jakaya Kikwete

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

Amit Abraham

One must always be careful, for the art of shamanism is fueled by the power of the will, interacting with the power of the plants. And it seems all too easy for some shamans to warp that power to dark ends, to the 'shamachismo' that can drive them to...

Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if we are to assume that such corruption (and its spread throughout society) is the mechanism by which a civilization attracts cosmi...

Laura Knight-Jadczyk

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

Richard J. Needham

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

Mark McKinnon

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Eduard Shevardnadze

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Duop Chak Wuol

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg

There are two ways of spreading light to be candle,or the mirror that reflects it.

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Elia Kazan