Quotes About Corruption

I saw the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot lust...

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies

A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...

I only know that he who makes a tie is lost, the seed of corruption has entered his heart

a character exposed to those strongest of all influences: the intrigues, flattery, and self-deception inseparable from power;

It is not particular judges who are bought but the laws themselves, through campaign contributions and lobbying, in what has come to be called "corruption, American-style." In some states judges are elected, and in those states there's an even closer connection between money and "justice." Monied interests use campaign contributions to get judges who are sympathetic to their causes.

The wealth given to the elites and to the bankers seemed to arise out of their ability and willingness to take advantage of others. One

especially in the United States, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote.

misshapen economy creates misshapen individuals and a misshapen society

Trump doesn't have a plan to help the country; he has a plan to continue the robbery of the majority by those at the top.

tres etapas: engaño, obstrucción y desempoderamiento.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.   —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest," Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy earth!

Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not!

That's my trouble, you know," Yossarian mused sympathetically, folding his arms. "Between me and every ideal I always find Scheisskopfs, Peckems, Korns and Cathcarts. And that sort of changes the ideal.

You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated or deceived. Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. Slums depress you. Greed depresses you. Crime depresses you. Corruption depresses you. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic-depressive!

this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.

The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.

Instead of citing scientific studies to justify mandates for masks, lockdowns, and vaccines, our medical rulers cite WHO, CDC, FDA, and NIH—captive agencies that are groveling sock puppets to the industries they regulate. Multiple federal and international investigations have documented the financial entanglements with pharmaceutical companies that have made these regulators cesspools of corruption.

You can put any element into a collection with a raw type, easily corrupting the collection's type invariant (as demonstrated by the unsafeAdd method on page 119); you can't put any ele- ment (other than null) into a Collection>.

It was a time of sin. It was not a time of innocence. It was a time of physical disgust. For I remember well.

by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind. Ephesians 2:3