Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Corruption Quotes
CorruptionFollyLeadershipPower Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
CorruptionMotivationResponsibilitySacredness of DutyWork Ethics Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
ConflictCorruptionJusticeMoralityPower Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
CorruptionEthicsPoliticsPowerTrust Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
ChangeCorruptionLeadershipPowerResponsibility Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
CorruptionEqualityGreedJusticeMorality On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that 'all men are created equal' a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim 'a self evident lie'.
CorruptionGovernment PowerSecrecyTransparency Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
CorruptionIntegrityStrengthTemptationVulnerability If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
AuthorityCorruptionHubrisPowerPretentiousness Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
CorruptionEthicsGivingGreedSociety Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
CorruptionErosion of DemocracyManipulationPower AbuseTyranny However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
CorruptionEthicsInfluencePower DynamicsRepresentation The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
CitizenshipCorruptionEconomic ExploitationGovernmentPolitics In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
CorruptionEvilInnocenceMoral AmbiguityNature of Good and Evil All things truly wicked start from innocence.
BehaviorCorruptionHumanityMorality The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
CorruptionFalsehoodHarmIntegritySoul False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Aid CriticismCorruption Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Abuse of PowerApathyCorruptionInjustice The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
CorruptionEvilWickedness There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
ChildhoodCorruptionEvilFamilyMorality Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
CorruptionJusticeSovereigntyTyranny In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
AltruismCorruptionEthicsGreedSociety Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
CorruptionGovernmentHonorMoralitySociety When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
