| 16 Corruption Quotes
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“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”
Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes |
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“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference”
Bess Myerson Quotes |
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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
David Brin Quotes |
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“"Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas”
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
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“Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus Quotes |
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“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it
passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
[Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi
per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes Source: Works (vol. III)
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“Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act III, sc. 3)
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“. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, l. 736)
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“'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst
That the best things corrupted, are the worst;
'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd
Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;
That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)
Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.”
Sir John Denham Quotes Source: Progress of Learning
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“I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest
creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima
corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.”
Owen Felltham (Feltham) Quotes Source: Resolves (XXX, Of Woman, p. 70), (Pickering's Reprint of Fourth Edition)
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“When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, ask no place,
For such preferment is disgrace.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables (pt. II, fable 2)
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“At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 135)
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“So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.”
Samuel Purchas Quotes Source: Pilgrimage--To the Reader, of religion
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“The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking
the muck.
- Theodore Roosevelt,”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes Source: address at the corner-stone laying of the Office Building of House of Representatives
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