Corrupt

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have to have court doors open to make sure they (the courts) are not involved in corrupt actions. As soon as you put asset information behind the cloak of secrecy, then no one will be able to determine that justice is being done.

- Tom Newton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

- Bruce Sterling Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't know of a single witness in this so-called corruption trial that's going to say there was a corrupt payment to George Ryan. No one got cheated out of anything. The contracts were good deals, fair deals, for the secretary of state's office.

- Dan Webb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

- David Hackworth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The speaker says that he's constantly receiving checks and passing them back out. That's part of what I'm saying is corrupt about our system now. Money is the commodity that dominates politics.

- Bob Hall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism.

- Christian Williams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

- Horace Mann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Alan Rudolph Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Why would you impose such a bold and corrupt regime on the nations of the region unless it (the Holocaust) is a big historical lie.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

- Felix Adler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You want to know something There isn't a single witness in this case that testified - not a single one - that said he gave any corrupt benefits to George Ryan - ever.

- Dan Webb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It doesn't hurt candidates to criticize them (Republicans in the House), because the criticism is shared with their Republican voters. Most are unhappy with corruption and spending ... so their charge is to prove they are the most anti-corrupt. They are competing for mantle of who will be the toughest on the deficit.

- Gary Jacobson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

- Ginger Baker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bob Coates went to a bar and had a drink with somebody who was less than the daughter of Isabella, ... The media took these isolated things and conveyed the impression that this was a corrupt, indecent group, without offering any perspective.

- Brian Mulroney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

- George Whitefield Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

- Adlai E. Stevenson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How did we ever end up with a democracy where challengers to the entrenched corrupt political system in our country cannot get to tens of millions of voters without going through a gate whose key is controlled by the two major parties who want to exclude reforms

- Ralph Nader Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty is more important than this country having a future in NATO and peace for its citizens.

- Paddy Ashdown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Two years ago, the New York Racing Association was a poster child for mismanagement and corruption, ... While much still remains to be done, the result has proven that reform of even a very poorly managed and corrupt agency is possible.

- Alan Hevesi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

- Ed Markey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

- Lactantius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes