Quotes About Corruption

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner, whose novels and essays provide us a comprehensive portrait of industrial society in all its glittering corruption and radiant evil.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Modern politics is expensive—power follows money.)

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Water flows uphill towards money.

Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.

Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.

It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

All four pillars of democracy have broken down several years back , so no point of trusting any one of them.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.

Howarth began to see that, however much it was against ones will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.

Take a look at the society we live in. It is rotten to the core, infected with attachments. What is an attachment? An attachment is an emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it.

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure.