Quotes about Corruption
Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.
— Elizabeth George
Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!
— Pope Francis
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
— Albert Einstein
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defined. And then, I ate my own wickedness.
— Aldous Huxley
His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. . . Murder kills only the individual - and, after all, what is an individual?
— Aldous Huxley
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
— Aldous Huxley
It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The world is increasing in wickedness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
— Ronald Reagan
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.
— Bill Gates
That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.
— Alice Walker
it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.
— Alice Walker