Quotes About Corruption

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

And if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that everyone has a price. - Ari Shamron

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

Russian Laundromat?

You know what they say about assassinations, Don Orsati. The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

the looting began—a wild orgy of self-dealing, kickback schemes, siphoning, embezzlement, protection rackets, tax fraud, and outright theft that enriched the men around the new president.

it's that everyone has a price.

In Russia you cannot succeed or become wealthy unless someone in a position of power or influence places his hand on your shoulder. - Oksana Akimova

L?comia de averi, nedreptatea social?, r?azboiul, toate acestea sunt manifest?ri ale r?ului din lumea noastr?.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Chaque décennie a son vocabulaire. La fréquence de certains mots dans les médias nous renseigne sur l'état des choses. Les deux favoris ont été pendant longtemps: dictature et corruption. Pour la première fois on entend reconstruction. Un mot vraiment nouveau. Et cela même si beaucoup de gens n'y croient pas trop.

Un pays n'est jamais corrompu, ce sont ses dirigeants qui peuvent l'être.

Dio è la voce dell'assente, l'assente più presente di tutti sei tu, finto Dio che fingi di essere un poeta malato di civiltà: parole inusuali e ineguali usi a tuo uso e consumo per corrompere, bastonare gli umani: io vivo e questo ti dispiace, ho un corpo e questo ti rammarica.

Their [politicians] fiction mechanisms are immune to trauma.

As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.

The most common reason why nations fail today is because they have extractive institutions.

poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do.

The people learned that they could grumble without being disloyal, because the ministers were not beloved kings above reproach, but only rather stupid people like themselves, probably even more stupid. The ministers discovered that office had undoubted advantages, but they knew they would not be reelected unless they governed well, so mostly they tried their best. Each kept watch that none of the others got away with more than he did, and this kept corruption within limits.

Let's face it, our representative democracy has broken down. Our government primarily represents the big money boys and stacks the deck against reform movements. Playing only by the system's rules limits you.

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.

Well, this is all very Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom,' said the Doctor. 'It reminds me of the Court of Caligula on the days when they let school parties in.' 'You

He had seen the ambitious and the proud seek to raise themselves above their kin, and in so doing corrupt themselves, make themselves into things of contempt. The true nobility did not need to prove itself. It simply was, a fact as indisputable as the orbit of planets and the majesty of stars.

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He