Quotes About Corruption

The city was poisoned with the venom of small fundamentalisms, and the venom ran beneath us, like dirty water in the sewers.

This is why the camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time; and is why in turn I feel such rage at its misuse: which has spread so nearly universal a corruption of sight that I know of less than a dozen alive whose eyes I can trust even so much as my own.'   'If

I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption. His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

It's government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable. Coercive power goes a long way toward explaining political corruption.

What our nation needs is a separation of "business and state" as it has a separation of "church and state." That would mean crony capitalism and crony socialism could not survive.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

People religious enough to want to live in a world dominated by faith were also religious enough to guard their souls against doctrinal error, which logically meant suppressing, persecuting, or killing those who might corrupt even minor details of doctrine. 

Hier unten existierte dieses Riesenreich voll mit unschätzbarem Wissen, und es war in der Hand von Mördern und Banditen, wilden Tieren, Ratten und Insekten, die es besinnungslos herunterwirtschafteten, unbewohnbar machten und eines Tages endgültig zerstören würden.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.

The sun no longer showsHis face; and treason sowsHis secret seeds that no man can detect;Fathers by their children are undone;The brother would the brother cheat;And the cowled monk is a deceit…Might is right, and justice there is none.

sovereign moshpit of corrupt bureaucrats and tribal strongmen and baseline incompetence. When

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!

I'm not trying to suggest that I was wrongly convicted by corrupt police officers. Simply that I was rightfully convicted by corrupt police officers.

To you sir, this may appear strange; it may appear impertinent; it may appear astonishing; but to me, sir, who am as uncorrupted, us unprotected by power, it is a duty which every honest man out of office should observe towards every rogue in.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture.

Another time, as they walked down Lexington Avenue together, Trump saw a newspaper headline announcing the arrest of a New Jersey mayor for allegedly taking an $800,000 bribe from a developer. "There is no goddamn mayor in America worth $800,000," Trump bellowed. "I can buy a U.S. senator for $200,000.

They can't afford to solve the issues because they've turned the conflict itself into profit.

Tap gen mwens pwoblèm ak krim nan mond lan si moun ta di laverite menm si laverite fè mal.

We live in a world where you don't know who to trust anymore because most people are not honest and do anything for a couple of dollars bills.

The further away from the source, the more contaminated the information is."

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.