Quotes about Corruption
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
— William Wilberforce
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
— Will Rogers
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
— Will Rogers
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
— Ellen Glasgow
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
— Victor Hugo
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
— William Henry Harrison
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
— Frank Herbert