Corrupt Quotes

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

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

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.