CORRUPTION QUOTES IV

quotations about corruption

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

BESS MYERSON

Redbook, April 1974


What's more problematic is retail corruption, the almost inescapable web of corruption in the country, with a price list for almost every service the government provides.

RAVI VANKATESAN

Conquering the Chaos


Can't fight corruption with con tricks
They use the law to commit crime
And I dread, dread to think what the future will bring

THE SPECIAL A.K.A.

Gangsters


State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

J.M. COETZEE

Giving Offense


After all, tackling corruption is like tackling an epidemic. It is not possible to quarantine one section alone.

N. VITTAL

Corruption in India: The Roadblock to National Prosperity


Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

sonnet


Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

EDMUND BURKE

Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777