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Corrupt Quotes

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Youth Think Way Him Corrupt Hold

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Kind Corrupt Statement Politician

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Government Democracy Election Corrupt

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Corrupt Laws Most State Then

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writing Want Corrupt Activities Them

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Politicians Corrupt Away Prosecutor

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

Power Power Corrupts Corrupt Corrupts

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Work People Communism Ready Corrupt

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.

Happiness Enemy Will Virtue Corrupt

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power People Corrupt

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Great End Corrupt Forgotten Destined

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

Late Corrupt United United States

There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threatens to corrupt the whole republic. I remain a deeply concerned, committed admirer, but also a very worried one.

Alain de Botton

Hand Out Corrupt Side Republic Very

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

Power Men Fools Position Corrupt

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Police Over Years Corrupt Working

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

Mahathir Mohamad

You Country Corrupt Anything Prime

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

People Long Liberty Corrupt Exist

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

God Community Law Powerful Corrupt

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

Corrupt Everybody Themselves Except

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Son World Now Up Corrupt Bring

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

Man Impossible Nothing More Corrupt

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Fenimore Cooper

Purpose Party Corrupt Legislation

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Work Women More Corrupt Honest Less

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

William Bratton

Corrupt Cops Like Some Brutal

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