Quotes about Corruption
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
— Mark Twain
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
— Joseph Addison
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
— Samuel Johnson
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
— Herbert Hoover
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
— Cicero
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
— Thomas Paine
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
— Mark Twain
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
— Edmund Burke
It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.
— Edmund Burke