Quotes About Corruption

liable to quote lyrics about the death of the campaigner Blair Peach during an anti-Nazi rally in London in the seventies and rant about oligarchic corruption in the US body politic.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Tommy

You will find that money can buy everything, even the conscience and integrity of a priest, began Tempest.

He exercised a supervisory role and knew all about the money funneled to politicians.

It was in the last-minute effort to halt Tidewater that Standard Oil first resorted to the wholesale bribery of state legislators.

Businessmen such as Rockefeller preferred to think of themselves as victims of political extortion, not as initiators of bribes.

Rockefeller's papers reveal that he and Standard Oil entered willingly into a staggering amount of corruption.

Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. "Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

What also gave the book its force was Lloyd's political message: "Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

although she never guessed the depths of corruption revealed by Rockefeller's papers.

By 1907, however, they had exploited enough legal loopholes to become highly speculative.

Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the gross trickery behind the Manhattan Company.

All the romance of feeling that men in high places are above personal considerations and act only from motives of pure patriotism, and for the general good of the public has been destroyed. An inside view proves too truly very much the reverse. —ULYSSES S. GRANT to WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, September 18, 1867

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

el comité se convirtió en una casta y se creó una religión para justificar los privilegios.

La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.

If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

What would my grandfather say? Ben thought. Politics is the art of chingando. Chinga aquí, chingá allá, chinga a todos iguales. The art of chingando was very democratic; everybody got screwed.

No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees

The World-Rectifying Catfish targeted the business class, the 1 percent, whose rampant practices of price-fixing, hoarding, and graft had led to economic stagnation and political corruption.

some Haitian gangster-cum-political bigwig. He had seen such characters