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Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
—George Richard Marek

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton

When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.
—Edward Brooke

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
—Jacob K. Javits

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
—Charles Caleb Colton

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
—Bess Myerson

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
—G. Edward Griffin

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
—Robert Zoellick

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
—Aesop

It’s still difficult to classify Trump exactly: he’s not a classic Nazi, but would burn books if his supporters knew how to read.
―Frankie Boyle

This is the most corrupt administration ever.
—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) @SenWarren, April 2018

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
—Mahatma Gandhi

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
—Abraham Lincoln

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
—Thomas Jefferson

#TheResistance

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.
—Alex Carey, Australian social scientist

A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves, and traitors are not victims but accomplices.
—George Orwell

Never, never underestimate the power of corruption to rewrite history.
—Oliver Stone

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
—Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President or that we must stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public.
—Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
—Theodore Roosevelt

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

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.
—Harry Markopolos

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