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Quotes about Corruption

You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?
— Richard Paul Evans
Proud men are the devil's pipes, and flatterers the musicians to blow these pipes.
— Richard Sibbes
Materialists do not love matter. They have no sense of its "earnest expectation" (Romans 8:19), and do not sympathize with its "bondage of corruption" (Romans 8:21).
— Richard Wurmbrand
The Democrats are evil, and they crave power. They're willing to destroy any decent man or woman to attain it.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
— Philip James Bailey
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
— Philip Schaff
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
— Martin Van Buren
We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.
— Abhijit Banerjee
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.
— Randy Alcorn