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Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed. -- Evan Esar
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. -- Taylor Caldwell
Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn't the young who corrupt the old, rather it's the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Corruption hates what is not corrupt. -- Paul Park
Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants. -- Walter Raleigh
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. -- William Gaddis
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. -- Bob Marley
The Corrupt should be tied to a rock & thrown into the sea -- Pope Francis
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. -- Walter Lippmann
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them. -- Robert Payne
Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. -- Tam David-West
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. -- Ovid
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -- John Steinbeck
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. -- Thomas Jefferson
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. -- Khalil Gibran
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. -- James Monroe
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it. -- P. Chidambaram
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. -- Stokely Carmichael
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. -- Margaret Heffernan
Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. -- Michael Moore
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. -- will.i.am
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. -- John W. Gardner
While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt. -- Chetan Bhagat
I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman. -- Boman Irani
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. -- Anton Chekhov
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. -- Robert Caro
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. -- William Hague
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. -- Juan Williams
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' -- Ramez Naam
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Hillary Clinton has jeopardized. Totally jeopardized national security by putting her e-mails on a private server, all to hide her corrupt dealings. -- Donald Trump
Entitlement and privelege corrupt. -- James Stockdale
I'm only a poor corrupt official. -- Claude Rains
All things can corrupt perverse minds. -- Ovid
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. -- Gertrude Himmelfarb
Every government is always growing corrupt. -- Wendell Phillips
Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics. -- Amit Kalantri
The press is, almost without exception, corrupt. -- Henry David Thoreau
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. -- William Gaddis
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt. -- Dimitris Mitropoulos
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The whole f**king system is corrupt. -- Frank Serpico
Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. -- Mo Ibrahim
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. -- E. O. Wilson
Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character. -- Orrin Woodward
Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity. -- Mark Dever
The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech. -- Russ Feingold
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists. -- Robert Payne
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. -- Menander
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke
Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network. -- Alexei Navalny
Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart. -- Cassandra Clare
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me. -- Jack White
Big government is the most corrupt industry in America. -- Malcolm Wallop
The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid. -- Matt Groening
Change has to come from outside our corrupt system. -- Donald Trump
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. -- Horace
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -- George Orwell
Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt. -- Arvind Kejriwal
D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is. -- Robin Wright
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt? -- James Moore
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. -- Paddy Ashdown
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt -- Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Tacitus
Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action. -- Oswald Chambers
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. -- Ovid
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. -- Frank Herbert
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. -- Tacitus
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. -- Farhan Akhtar
I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. -- Zhu Rongji
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? -- Walt Whitman
The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness. -- Robert Payne
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. -- Euripides
Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement. -- Alan Rudolph
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place. -- Beau Willimon
We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington. -- Jack Kevorkian
Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan. -- Chuck Todd
Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. -- Charles Edward Merriam
The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy. -- Phil Donahue
Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. -- John Milton
There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. -- Gabriel García Márquez
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. -- Blaise Pascal
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system. -- Jerry Brown
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. -- Sally Mann
[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt. -- John Heilemann
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. -- Samuel Smiles
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. -- John C. Calhoun
O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. -- William Shakespeare
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. -- Mikko Hypponen
Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul. -- Cass Gilbert
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. -- Thomas Paine
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. -- Matthew Simpson
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. -- Studs Terkel
The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree. -- Craig Ferguson
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers. -- Yaroslav Trofimov
Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. -- John Milton
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. -- Thomas Paine
They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something. -- Freddie Mercury
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. -- Robert Anton Wilson
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. -- Hannah More
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts. -- Paul Ryan
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly. -- Socrates
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. -- Khalil Gibran
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco) -- Iain Pears

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