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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
-Scottish Proverb
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
-Saul Alinsky
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
-Pearl Bailey
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
-Georges Bernanos
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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
-Edmund Burke
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
-John Jay Chapman
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
-Cyril Connolly
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It's totally corrupt man.
-James Dye
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The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people.
-James Dye
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A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
-Jonathan Gash
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
-Graham Greene
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
-Ernest Hemingway
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
-Eric Hoffer
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I am against government by crony.
-Harold L. Ickes
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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
-Walter Lippmann
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
-John Lyly
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The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable.
-Don Mashak
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
-Bess Myerson
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
-William Shakespeare
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
-Publilius Syrus
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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
-Leon Trotsky
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Books about Corruption
