Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Khazane ko choro se nahin pehredaro se dokha hain
Is desh ko sirf dushmano se nahin,
in gaddaro se dhokha hai.

Mera Bharat mahan , 100 me se 99 be-imaan”

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”

. “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
 

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.”

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.