Corruption Quotes

"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." "You know it's funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud." "The duty of youth is to challenge corruption" "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder" "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy" "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" "The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working" "Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism" "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" "A democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few" "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." "The fight against corruption must go deeper" "The greater the state, the more wrong and injustice it commits" "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" "In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity" "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse" "It is not power that corrupts but fear" "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse" "For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."