“That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.”
Others on Corruption
Pat Conroy
1 quote“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
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...”
Suzanne Collins
1 quote“Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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 Adams
1 quote“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position i...”