Corruption Effects Quotes

Corruption can be a lubricant reducing the friction between new elites and old elites in a period of rapid change.

Bad politics tends to drive out good politics, just as bad money drives out good money.

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

Were it not for the corruption and viciousness of degenerate men, there would be no ... necessity that men should separate from this great and natural community, and by positive agreements combine into smaller and divided associations.

Corruption has also proved difficult to root out because it is not simply a matter of the powerful preying on the weak.… graft and fraud can offer ways for a poor person to climb the socioeconomic ladder.

The great crime of the politicians is not just the corrosion of their own morality but the corruption they've caused to the American spirit.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

For there is nothing so social by nature, [and] so unsocial by its corruption, as this race.

There is a burgeoning wealthy class in Nigeria, but it is small, and its members thrive largely thanks to political connections and connivances.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

The Countrywide scandal is a lesson for anyone who tries to downplay the significance of crony capitalism, which moves far beyond perks and favors for politicians. These corrupt arrangements influence policies that impact all Americans, and never for the better.

If there is one thing that unites all Palestinian people today is their resentment of corruption.

Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.