corruption quotes

Louisianans don't tolerate corruption; they demand it.

-Anonymous
  In the NewYork Times, 5 Mar.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms16:10.

No science is immuneto the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

-Jacob Bronowski
In The Listener.

   Thething whichamazesme isthat I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any governmentthere's always corruption. It's bad when it's more than fifteen percent.

- Michel Brunet
Interviewed by Ramsay Cook in Eleanor Cook (ed)  The Craft of History (1973).

O wombe! O bely! O stynkyng cod Fulfilled of dong and of corrupcioun!

- Geoffrey Chaucer
  Canterbury  Tales,'The Pardoner's Tale', l.534^5.

Corruption is more than a poison afflicting Chinese business life. It is Chinese business life.

-The Economist
  The Economist, 29  Jan.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

- Edward Gibbon
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.21.

The Europeans have scarcely visited any coast, but to gratify avarice, and extend corruption; to arrogate dominion without right, and practice cruelty without incentive† But there isreason to hope†that the light of the gospel will at last illuminate the sands of Africa, and the deserts of America, though its progress cannot but be slow when it is so much obstructed by the lives of Christians.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Introduction to The World Displayed.