“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.”
Others on Corruption
George Orwell
1 quote“…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.”
Balzac
1 quote“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
Immanuel Kant
1 quote“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.”
Joe Biden
1 quote“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.”
John Adams
1 quote“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position i...”
Andrew Jackson
1 quote“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
John Fowles
1 quote“That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.”
Aung San Suu Kyi
1 quote“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
Cicero
1 quote“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
Montesquieu
1 quote“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruptio...”
Pat Conroy
1 quote“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
Cicero
1 quote“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”