Quotation Library
Corruption
Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency.
The emoluments of office are not the rewards of merit, but the spoils of faction.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
The abuse of public trust for private gain is corruption.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it.
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Corruption never has been compulsory.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
The greatest of all crimes is to corrupt the youth.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Bad company corrupts good character.
Corruption is the enemy of development.
The dishonest man always fears the law.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination.
A corrupt society has many laws.
The fish rots from the head down.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Nothing corrupts people more than the exercise of power.