Quotes About Corruption

Cuanto más depravado se vuelve un pueblo, más se indigna públicamente contra la inmoralidad.

Sin is the the corruption of reason. That's why humans are capable of such evils, while unreasoning animals are not.

The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption.

Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption hath taken hold on thee? Doth it then also void excrements? Doth it like either oxen, or sheep, graze or feed; that it also should be mortal, as well as the body?

In a wicked generation, might makes right, violence is praised, and virtue is slandered." —Hesiod, Works and Days

Now say I, if so be that this be both hurtful unto them, and yet unavoidable, would not, thinkest thou, the whole itself be in a sweet case, all the parts of it being subject to alteration, yea and by their making itself fitted for corruption, as consisting of things different and contrary

Su visión del hombre es pesimista, pues considera que sus pasiones son el factor principal de la corrupción del mundo, por lo que aconseja perseguir tan sólo aquellos fines que dependan de uno mismo.

underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.

The corrupt and blood-smeared fingerprints of the past must be wiped away to create a clean space for the morally pure generation that is surely about to arrive. Such is the theory.

Why were the bad people doing that? Because of Money. Money was invisible, like Fuck. They thought that Money was their helper; they thought he was a better helper than Fuck. But they were wrong about that. Money was not their helper. Money goes away just when you need it. But Fuck is very loyal.

She's a lean vixen: I can see the ribs, the sly trickster's eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinny feet, adept at lies. Why encourage the notion of virtuous poverty? It's only an excuse for zero charity. Hunger corrupts, and absolute hunger corrupts absolutely

Bearing false witness was not the exception, it was common. Beneath its outer show of virtue and purity, Gilead was rotting.

I've had cause to notice over the course of what you might call my Gilead career that underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.

When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

The evil is in the White House at the present time.