Quotes About Corruption

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

You'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes and sell his body for soap.

Why wasn't he arrested?" "He was, but they couldn't convict him. Don't ask me why. Ask the politicians that ran the cops in New York and Jersey and Cleveland and the other places. Ask the people that voted for the politicians.

The trouble is that corruption isn't something you can have a little of. It's like cancer; inject it into a political organism and it's bound to spread. It's almost an axiom that power that has been taken out of the hands of the people is bound to grow progressively more corrupt.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

You have fallen badly, señor gringo. Bribery is a very serious crime in this country. You will have to pay.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

Evil offends justice and justice upsets evil.

Just because a majority of the people vote in favor of something doesn't make it morally right, it just means a majority of the people could be corrupt.

Justice cannot survive in a corrupt and violent world, that is why just people struggle so intensely and die so frequently and evil people prosper so much. Unfortunately the world was made to protect and defend evil, not Justice.

Justice should never shake hands with corruption.

Once you realize how flawed, corrupt, worthless, and evil people are, their lies won't bother you as much anymore.

Professionalism: Every person, every business, say their professional but they bring their corrupt politics, their unjust behaviors, their fraudulent religious views and their flawed religions into the office and into people's lives everyday. Only if you stop bringing all this harmful bullshit into the office and the work environment, only if you are truly a just person at all times might you reach the status of professionalism.

The world is overwhelmed by evil people, evil forces, and evil things.

The world: We're living in a world of failed justice and successful evil, this should be the other way around.

Those who create bad policy, those who enforce bad policy, those who protect and defend bad policy, are corrupt.

Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision, corrupts.

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Power has been called many things. The ultimate aphrodisiac. An absolute corrupter. A mistress. A violin. But its true nature remains elusive. After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than

Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to the torch.