“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
Others on Corruption
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...”
Albert Camus
1 quote“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free...”
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.”
Suzanne Collins
1 quote“Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".”
Eric Hoffer
1 quote“Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.”
Francine Rivers
1 quote“But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.”