Quotes About Corruption

MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary quo given in exchange for a substantial quid.

Wall street, n. a symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke. That wall street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in heaven

Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.

Loyalty is an admirable quality,' said Barezin. 'Admirable. But it must cut both ways.' 'Loyalty to a corrupt regime,' added Heugen, 'is foolishness . Worse. Cowardice. Worse! It's dis loyalty!

Debauchery is profitable under any government

There's always something dark about a man with money

The swamps will run out of flies," said Shudra, "before politicians run out of arguments.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Humanity is worse than flies.

Jude collected them in almost exactly the same way the Pied Piper had collected rats, and children. He made melodies out of hate and perversion and pain, and they came to him, skipping to the music, hoping he would let them sing along.

The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. "Dracula" and "The Fly" may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.

But other creatures of the desert do seem to apprehend what is happening. Through the crosshairs of its huge pupils, a tarantula watches Angie's skin drink in the danger: the pollen from the Joshua mixes with the red blood on her finger. On a fuchsia ledge of limestone, a dozen lizards witness the Leap. They shut their gluey eyes as one, sealing their lucent bodies from contagion, inter-kingdom corruption.

Ellos recalcaban que el problema de los pecadores era doble: un mal prontuario, que es un problema legal; y un corazón malo, que es un problema moral.

It's not that the means corrupt the ends. It's that the ends never work, and that's why they need brutal means.

Harry Anslinger is our own darkest impulses, given a government department and a license to kill.

while Harry Anslinger claimed to be fighting the Mafia, he was in fact transferring a massive and highly profitable industry into their exclusive control.

White boasted. "Where else [but in the Bureau of Narcotics] could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage219

The Mafia paid Harry Anslinger to launch his crusade because they wanted the drug market all to themselves.

I felt like everywhere I went, I was surrounded by people who were broadcasting but not receiving. Narcissism, it occurred to me, is a corruption of attention - it's where your attention becomes turned in only on yourself and your own ego.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.