Quotes About Corruption

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

the system which is in control in Argentina and most of the world is nothing less that the best democracy which money can buy, allied with drug trafficking and organized crime. The sad conclusion, then, is that the worst which this "democracy" has in store for us is corrupt government; the best it has to offer is government by millionaires.

In directing the Bureau's attention to individual bank robbers, Hoover turned a blind eye toward organized crime in general and Jewish crime in particular, perhaps because Hoover was an inveterate gambler. Frank Costello gave him tips on horses.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.

The predatory barons, kings, and princelings of the Middle Ages had bred a swarm of rulers with the political ethics of highway robbers and, for the most part, the intellects of stable boys.

Ben de counting began and it became clear that ErdoÄŸan would not win, the Higher Electoral Board changed the election law from 1 hour to the next, following pressure from the later himself, and egregious fake votes for ErdoÄŸan were deemed valid.

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

A rapacious and licentious soldiery.

Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

The railroad they built yonder wasn't even a decent road, but they'd been granted all that land by a rotten Congress that they'd bought up—land on both sides of the tracks for miles and miles, east and west. That's what they were after, you see. They got all that land along the right of way—hundreds of thousands of acres—and it never cost them a cent of their own money.

Samfélagið hvílir á fjórum stöplum, hugsaði hann: fáfræði, leti, ranglæti og asnaskap.

Trabajaba en un Juzgado que había sabido funcionar bien, pero que ahora estaba en manos de un boludo. Y un boludo de la peor especie: un boludo con ansias de rápidos ascensos.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.