If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
– Edward Abbey
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
– Ansel Adams
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
– Frank Herbert
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
– Edward Abbey
I see corruption so largely rewarded that I doubt not that I should thrive in the world, could I get but a dispensation for my conscience for the liberty of trading.
– Arthur Warwick
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
– Vladimir Putin
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
– Edmund Burke
Honesty Pays Honors And Corruption Dishonors
If charity begins at home…….so does corruption!
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
– Tacitus
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.
– Donald Trump
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Corruption destroys; the gain of our freedom…
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
– Lord Acton
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
– Horace
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
– Karl Kraus
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.
– Charles Caleb Colton
If you want to fight corruption, prepare to be dirty.
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Everywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
– John Fletcher
Money and corruption are ruining the land,
crooked politicians betray the working man,
pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep,
and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
– Ray Davies
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
– G. Edward Griffin
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
– Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it
– A. K. Antony
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
– Charles Barkley
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
– Farhan Akhtar
Corruption is man’s inheritance.
– Anacletus
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
– Kailash Kher
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
– Robert A. Heinlein
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
– Malcolm X
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.
– Shekhar Kapur
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.
– Thomas Paine
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy.
It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children.
In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
– Frank Serpico
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
– Kurt Cobain
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
– Adlai Stevenson
It`s (corruption) never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head.
– Joseph Wambaugh
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
– Edmund Burke
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
– Albert Einstein
Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency.
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
– Tupac Shakur
Don`t buy a single vote more than necessary. I`ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
– Joseph Kennedy
Imagine the possibility of a corruption- free generation, it begins with you.
Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.
– Arshad Warsi
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
– Alan Bullock
Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
– Paul Park
All things can corrupt perverse minds.
– Ovid
The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people.
– James Dye
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
– John Steinbeck
Many people, especially officials, don`t have the courage to speak up against corruption.
– Jaya Arjuna
I have seen corruption boil and bubble ’til it oerrun the stew.
– William Shakespeare
The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.
– Xenophon
The mistake you make, don’t you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself.
– George Orwell
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
– Georges Bernanos
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
– Voltaire
We now have a national reputation for corruption.
– Chris Redfern
We vote. We choose governments and the government does not ask what kind of laws we want. Before any law is enacted, those who are consulted are foreign companies and foreign governments.
– Arvind Kejriwal
Shame On The Name Who Ruined Country’S Fame
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
– Indira Gandhi
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
– Andrew Jackson
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
– George Orwell
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
– Plato
We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.
– Peter Eigen
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
– Aesop
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self- governance.
– Doris Haddock
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
– Iain Pears
Personally I don’t think solving corruption is such a big problem.
– Imran Khan
Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.
– Churchill
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
– William Shakespeare
Corruption is a hard cane that beats hard on a nation with deaf ears.
– Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka
Corruption is the flesh that covers every bone.
– Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka
It is about corruption of the lawmaking process.
– John Morrison
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
– Henry David Thoreau
Corrupt officials are usually close- mouthed and open- handed.
– Evan Esar
This is the culture you’re raising your kids in. Don’t be surprised if it blows up in your face.
– Marilyn Manson
The issue of corruption is likely to play a very big role in the elections upcoming.
– Mark Mellman
No nation will run away from corruption when the devil is the kingmaker.
– Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka
The Democrats have been talking about the culture of corruption for some time. We don’t have all the details yet, but these seem to be serious situations. Nevadans deserve better from their elected officials.
– Kirsten Searer
Corruption Robs Us All.