Quotes About Corruption

Woe to the land where naked greed holds sway.

That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it, so deep and thick there will always be some left, enough to go around...it will ooze out over the earth...and poison it, so nothing will grow but viciousness, among the dead, among men.

Their last remaining pleasure! Their shriveled carcasses contained not one solitary atom that was not absolutely vicious!

We people are just worms on top of it, worms on its fat, revolting carcass, eating its entrails and all its poisons … Nothing can help us, we were born rotten … There you have it!

La burguesía es una podredumbre perfecta. Nunca, desde los tiempos bíblicos, nos ha sobrevivido una plaga más insidiosa, más obscena y más degradante que la viscosa sujeción burguesa. ¡Una clase astutamente tiránica, codiciosa, rapaz, y tartufesca hasta la médula!

Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

The evil create for those under their dominion a miniature sick society.

There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.

those who sought power were greedy, wanting gifts, and bribes, and willing to steal from the poor.

The trouble with this country is that it's a mass of anarchists and improvisors governed by bandits. pg. 164

Wealthy people get special insider deals, and if you and I lived in a country where the tax system was so blatantly illegitimate—where nothing seemed fair, and where our voices weren't heard, and where the rules changed from one day to the next—we wouldn't pay our taxes either.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

What I corrupted is what is called the truth in favour of a more marvellous world.

toda alegría es semejante al maná del desierto, que se corrompe de un día a otro; es semejante al agua de la fuente Ameles que, según cuenta Platón, no podía conservarse en ningún vaso... ¡Que cada instante se lleve lo que nos trajo!

Diríase que el amor se ha prostituido, al pasar por el corazón de tantos imbéciles.

Hay que dejar totalmente claro que las normas ordinarias del cine comercial y las producciones televisivas al uso corrompen al público de forma imperdonable, porque le roban cualquier posibilidad de contacto con el arte verdadero