Corruption Quotes

"You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people."

"As you fight corruption, it fights back."

"No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences."

"The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy."

"Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption."

"Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent."

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

Tacitus

"Just as fish moving under water cannot possibly be found out either as drinking or not drinking water, so government servants employed in government work cannot be found out while taking money."

Chanakya

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

Thomas Jefferson

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

William Pitt the Elder

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

Edward Abbey

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."

Eric Hoffer

"Those who have the power to do wrong with impunity seldom wait long for the will."

Samuel Johnson

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities."

Frank Herbert

"Every actual State is corrupt."

"Nothing is more dangerous than the influence of private interests in public affairs."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau