Have you ever been influenced by a corrupt person? Maybe you were offered a bribe or maybe someone in a position of power took advantage of their power over you. Corruption is a problem that exists all over the world and it can have serious consequences for individuals and businesses. In this blog post, we’ve compiled some powerful corruption quotes from famous entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and historical figures. We hope these quotes will inspire you to stand up against corruption and make your voice heard.
The best corruption quotes
1. People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values. — Mike Huckabee
2. We must stop calling corruption a ‘Nigerian factor’. — Sunday Adelaja
3. … there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. — C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire
4. If the church doesn’t start fighting corruption, it will keep flourishing in the country — Sunday Adelaja
5. A corruption of intentions. — Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper
6. Elected on anti–corruption platform in 1978. — Newt Gingrich
7. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
8. It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. — Martin Scorsese
9. Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. — Steven Levitt
10. To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. — Thomas Jefferson
11. If there’s anything to learn from the history of movies, it’s that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. — Pauline Kael
12. When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand. — Mira Grant, Deadline
13. Censorship exists to protect corruption. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
14. If the church doesn’t start fighting corruption, it will keep flourishing in the country — Sunday Adelaja
15. The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country’s reaction and view on corruption. — Sunday Adelaja
16. Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won’t come over here. — Tony Garza
17. Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. — P B Shelley
18. If you want to live in a state known for its corruption, come to Arizona! — Steven Magee
19. It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it. — Will Rogers
20. Heaven doesn’t only teach humans about virtue and divinity.It also shows us about politics and corruption — and that’s a fact.
21. He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. — Samuel Johnson
22. If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption? — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
23. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King’s Men) — Robert Penn Warren
24. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. — Thomas Jefferson
25. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
26. The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption’s of time and party, its members would become despots. — Thomas Jefferson
27. The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. — William Falconer
28. But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. — Umberto Eco
29. Corruption is a resultof low standardson local, national and global level.My works : Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNetherlands, TILBURG, August 17, 2016 — Petra Hermans
30. Professionals and good Samaritans, once be the gardener of the nation, would root up corruption. — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
31. To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally. — Wole Soyinka
32. If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
33. When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand. — Mira Grant, Deadline
34. Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption. — Shelby Steele
35. Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. — Milton Friedman
36. The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent
37. Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. — Theodore Roosevelt
38. The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption’s of time and party, its members would become despots. — Thomas Jefferson
39. People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values. — Mike Huckabee
40. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. — Saul Alinsky
41. Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson
42. Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won’t come over here. — Tony Garza
43. ‘they said, ”Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?’ — Qur’an 2 30
44. Erosion of corruption is ambition of a nation. Sow the revolution or go for contribution; if not, opt corroboration. — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
45. ‘they said, ”Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?’ — Qur’an 2 30
46. The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes. — Steven Magee
47. Corruption is a true enemy to development. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
48. Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours. — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
49. When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand. — Mira Grant, Deadline
50. I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it. — Steven Magee
Conclusion
We can all agree that corruption is a major issue in today’s society, and it is up to all of us to work together to find ways to end it. The best way to start is by recognizing the quotes that we have shared today. They provide us with motivation and a reminder of why we must fight corruption. With this in mind, let us all take action to end corruption and create a more equal and just society.
