Famous Quotes - Tags - Corruption
- All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. More
- Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. More
- Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the... More
- But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels. More
- but what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun
on again, a dead fruit
and all that... More
- By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. More
- Cankered heaps of strange-achievèd gold. More
- Connie, all my life I kept trying to go up in society where everything was legal, straight....... More
- Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the... More
- Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. More
- Demagogue—a vessel containing beer and other liquids. More
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. More
- Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish... More
- Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one’s all right, he... More
- Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. More
- Fear, Craft, and Avarice
Cannot rear a State. More
- For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against... More
- Ford. If money go before, all ways do lie open.
Falstaff. Money is a good soldier, sir, and... More
- Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown. More
- Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?
...
This yellow slave
Will knit and break... More
- He is reported to have said that the city was for sale, and would come to an untimely end if a... More
- heavy noisy cat More
- Here, take the money, Ben. It’s not like people. It’s got no memory. It don’t think. More
- He’s the biggest two-timing, double-crossing candidate that ever ran for office. He’s even... More
- His principles are like the bristles of a domesticated pig, they don’t pierce through the pork. More
- I am against government by crony. More
- I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World... More
- I condemn Christianity. I raise against the Christian church the most terrible accusation that... More
- I have often noticed that a bribe ... has that effect—it changes a relation. The man who offers... More
- I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When... More
- I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
Where the River flows, with foreign... More
- I spent my life mixin’ with your breed, and I don’t like it. Get me. You can hide behind a... More
- I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its “successful... More
- If you want fresh air, don’t look for it in this town. More
- In all institutions where the brisk air of public criticism fails to circulate (as, for example,... More
- In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries. More
- In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being seasoned with a gracious... More
- It is meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
For who so firm that cannot be... More
- It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of... More
- It’s not enough to be great, Charley. I tried to tell you in Philly. I tried to tell you in... More
- I’ve always found it very sanitary to be broke. More
- Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it... More
- Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided.... No personal considerations should stand in the... More
- Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his... More
- Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the... More
- Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
For policy sits above conscience. More
- Money can move the gods. More
- No more, O my spirit,
are we flawless,
we have seen evil undreamt
I myself saw it. More
- No troop or squadron or regiment’s gonna keep the Apaches on this reservation unless they want... More
- Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. More
- Now, it may be stretching an analogy to compare epidemics of cholera—caused by a known... More
- O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling... More
- O that estates, degrees, and offices
Were not derived corruptly, and that clear... More
- Officials don’t punish those who send gifts. More
- Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted. More
- One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything. More
- Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain... More
- Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call... More
- People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. More
- People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation,... More
- Power corrupts ... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The... More
- Shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our... More
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. More
- Something nasty in the woodshed. More
- That the corruption of the best things produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly... More
- The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. More
- The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.... More
- The corruption of the age is produced by the individual contribution of each one of us; some... More
- The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. More
- The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or... More
- The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its... More
- The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels. More
- The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God... More
- The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice,... More
- The small creatures chirp thinly through the dust, through the night.
O mother
What shall... More
- The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar’s laurel crown. More
- The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. More
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It... More
- There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular... More
- There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in... More
- There’s none
Can truly say he gives if he receives.
If our betters play at that game,... More
- They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do... More
- Thus your fathers were made
Fellow citizens of the saints, of the household of GOD, being... More
- Trade and the streets ensnare us,
Our bodies are weak and worn;
We plot and corrupt each... More
- Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and... More
- Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the... More
- We all cry out that the world is corrupt,—and I fear too justly,—but we never reflect, what... More
- We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must... More
- We took advantage of [the Indians’] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily... More
- Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. More
- Were it not for the corruption and viciousness of degenerate men, there would be no ... necessity... More
- What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? More
- What times! What manners! The Senate knows these things, the consul sees them, and yet this man... More
- What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When... More
- When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most... More
- Wherever you see a man who gives someone else’s corruption, someone else’s prejudice as a... More
- Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake. More
- You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
As reek a’th’rotten fens, whose loves I... More
- You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume... More
- You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, I’ll show you... More
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