Quotes about Corruption
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
- Catherine of Siena
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
- George Whitefield
Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
- Victor Hugo
And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone.
- Victor Hugo
The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
- Victor Hugo
It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.
- Victor Hugo
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
- Victor Hugo
The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
- Victor Hugo
and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words
- Victor Hugo
Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.
- Carl Sagan
Common grace ... an imperfect solution ... does centre our attention on the gracious act of God in protecting man's corrupt and apostate nature from total demonization.
- GC Berkouwer
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
- Aristotle