Quotes About Corruption

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

Un exceso de vanidad, como la borrachera, endurece el corazón, esclaviza las facultades y pervierte los sentimientos.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor.

Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.

seed of a syphilitic she-camel

Once I used to imagine that those in power were different, but most of them aren't," she went on. "No one likes to admit that their own people can be as greedy and cruel as any foreigners. We perform all kinds of contortions of the mind to make a reason why it isn't really the way it looks, but we only fool the people who want to be fooled.

You do not need to believe evil, only to use its methods. You will get accustomed to them, until eventually they are not your last choice, but your first. For awhile, you can justify it to yourself, and then eventually you will not bother. You have forgotten what you are fighting for; now winning is the only objective! And the more you win, the more you justify it, until the whole idea of right and wrong disappears and only winning matters.

What did law, or even justice, matter in the face of

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

And how is evil achieved? He asked. How does one fall from grace and become in one instant as evil as the mob tribunal of the revolution or the most cruel of the Roman emperors? Does one merely have to miss mass on Sunday or bite down on the communion host? Or steal a loaf of bread...or sleep with a neighbor's wife.

Tell me why evil people are so stupid? Why are so many of them just plain stupid?

How curious it is that these religious people believe the devil to be so stupid that he should seek to corrupt only the poor and powerless-why not the king of France for once?

All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.

Nevertheless, the inquiry turned up evidence to prove that with the help of mobsters, Post officials were dumping newspapers into the East River, incorporating them into the paper's circulation statistics, and thereby boosting advertising rates.

Mandelman, Stephen. Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.