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

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, exist everywhere. What successful economics do is keep it to a minimum.

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.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

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

Corruption continues with us beyond the grave,” She said, “and then plays merry hell with all ideas

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today

Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev’rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Corruption destroys; the gain of our freedom…

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.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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