Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Sherrod Brown

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Dean Acheson

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Lev Grossman

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

A. J. P. Taylor

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Imran Khan

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James F. Cooper

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Dennis Prager

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Bill Gates

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Humanity is about living in the gray area between corruptibility and incorruptibility.

D.C. Akers

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Jack Levine

Lorenzo: [narrating] Hell's Kitchen was a place of innocence ruled by corruption.

Sleepers

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Anna Lindh

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf