Quotes about Corruption

His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. . . Murder kills only the individual - and, after all, what is an individual?

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.

it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.

It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.