Corrupt Society Quotes:

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Education, Children, War, Conformist, Lunatic Asylums

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

- Frederic Bastiat

source: "Economic Sophisms". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, Second series, 1848.

topic: Life, Money, Men, Systems Of Government, Monetary System

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Country, Literature, Might, Moral Corruption, Endangerment

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

- Frank Serpico

topic: Children, Believe, Fighting, Power Corrupts, Corrupt Society

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

topic: Selfish, Men, Law, Squandering, Not Voting

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

topic: Money, Entrepreneur, Poverty, Corrupt Society, Publishers

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

- Pratibha Patil

source: Pratibha Patils farewell speech to the nation, www.abplive.in. July 24, 2012.

topic: Government, People, Enemy, Power Corrupts, Corrupt Society

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Ignorance, Character, People, Personal Responsibility, Not Voting

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

- Georges Bernanos

source: Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

topic: Mean, Tyrants, Deception, Ends And Means, Ends Justify The Means

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

topic: Men, Law, Office, Morality And Religion, Corrupt Society

People say that the monetary system produces incentive.  This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering.  You have to look at the entire picture.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: War, People, Greed, Monetary System, Causes Of Poverty

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Health, Spiritual Change, Spiritual Health

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

- Farhan Akhtar

source: Twitter post from Oct 19, 2012

topic: Humanity, Corruption, Terrible, Corrupt Society

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

- will.i.am

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ignorance, People, Lines, Educated And Uneducated, Uneducated

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Mean, Decision, India, Stakeholder, Decision Making Process

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

- George Orwell

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Trying, Corrupt Society

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Men, Well Being, Wells, Whole World, Corrupt Society

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Country, Men, Liberty, American Voters, Civic Responsibility

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Republic, Politics, Conservative, Democracy In America, Bribery

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Greed, Favoritism, Corruption, Mixed Economy, Objectivism

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

topic: Godly, Land, People, Western Society, Deteriorating

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

- Patrick Henry

topic: Men, Citizens, Moral, Incompatibility, Good Citizen

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

- Guido von List

topic: Religious, Men, Views, Modernity, Vacuous

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

- Janice Rogers Brown

topic: War, Moving, Loss, Unapologetic, Moral Depravity

The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Flags, Covenant, Corruption, Corrupt Society

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

- Robert Payne

topic: Age, Faces, Doe, Corrupt Society

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.

- Michael Lewis

source: "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

topic: Greek, Pay, Doing Nothing, Corrupt Society

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

- Robert David Steele

topic: Country, Evil, Republic, Open Source, Corrupt Society

The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Laughter, Corrupt Society, Beautiful Girl