Quotes About Corruption

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I love 'The Godfather.'

'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.

If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.

If the empire were to collapse, I should personally feel extremely sad. I absolutely do not believe that the personal rule of Napoleon III has been corrupting and oppressive for France-but quite the contrary, it is demonstrably necessary, conciliatory, progressive, and generally intelligent and democratic in the best sense of the word.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

love the natural, peaceful, and independent Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

In short, we even support and sustain corruption and tyranny to maintain a status-quo wherever we find existing regimes anti-communistic

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than by the dagger and ambush--they know also that all that is well said is believed in.

Corruption is just a rude word for the autumn of a people.

The race is corrupted—not by its vices, but by its ignorance: it is corrupted because it has not recognised exhaustion as exhaustion: physiological misunderstandings are the cause of all evil. Virtue is our greatest misunderstanding.

But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere—until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi.