Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Bad company corrupts good character.

Menander

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Chen Guangbiao

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter Ustinov

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Dinsha Patel

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Bess Myerson

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

Beau Willimon

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Jiang Qing

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

James L. Buckley

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Charles Dance

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Vladimir Putin

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet...

No Country for Old Men

Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption...

Thomas Jefferson

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Charles de Montesquieu

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches...

Saturn's Children

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Samuel Richardson