Quotes about Corruption
The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.
— Wendell Berry
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
— Calvin Coolidge
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
— Oscar Wilde
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
— Oscar Wilde
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there are hope.
— Oscar Wilde
Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!
— Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
— Oscar Wilde
Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.
— Oscar Wilde
are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
— Oscar Wilde
Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.
— Oscar Wilde
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
— John Knox