Quotes about Corruption
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
— Ellen White
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption. . . . Galatians 6:7—
— Charles Swindoll
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
— George Washington
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
— John Wycliffe
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— Catherine of Siena
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
Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
— Victor Hugo
And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone.
— Victor Hugo
The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
— Victor Hugo
It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.
— Victor Hugo
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
— Victor Hugo