Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. -Eduard Shevardnadze

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once its set a rolling it must increase. -Charles Caleb Colton

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

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. -Lee R. Raymond

There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.-Lynda Chalker

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.-Graham Greene

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

Wherever you see a man who gives someone elses corruption, someone elses prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.-John Jay Chapmann

Money you havent earned is not good for you.-Robert Maxwell

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