Quotes About Corruption

Love of money, he said, was the root of all evil. That was in the New Testament. In Saint Paul's letters to Timothy, if one wanted to be precise.

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.

They had used the law to abuse the law.

There is fierce race going on amongst all IAS, IPS and other govt officers as who can do more atrocity on common people by getting poisonous covid vaccine injected in their body overlooking humanity and get fast promotion besides many other rewards

We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.

The hierarchies of this army become corrupted or go rotten, if instead of placing themselves completely at the service of Revolution, they place revolution in their service and degenerate. . . . The malice of the militia seems to be forever the same.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. With so close a relationship between fear and corruption it is little wonder that in any society where fear is rife corruption in all forms becomes deeply entrenched.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) The ACRC plans to continuously promote anti-corruption policies and technical assistance projects for those countries that signed an MOU with the Commission. In addition, the Commission plans to expand the technical assistance recipients to the countries in Africa and South America, through the integrity education course for foreign public officials

He is super excited to see a big bunch of bootlickers going to bow before him and beg undue business favour from him and a lot of prepaid people will be brought to stand on both sides of road to wave and do slogan for him.

The army struck hard at the roots of populist politics by assassinating Bhutto. The prime minister was arrested, tried for murder and hung in 1979. The Machiavellian prince had turned into the tragic character of Christopher Marlow's Dr Faustus, who had sold his soul to the devil for power and become a victim of his own intellect.

The army struck hard at the roots of populist politics by assassinating Bhutto. The prime minister was arrested, tried for murder and hung in 1979. The Machiavellian prince had turned into the tragic character of Christopher Marlow's Dr Faustus, who had sold his soul to the devil

By the time her husband eventually went to the front and was killed, Kadiza rued her decision to travel to Syria. The caliphate was not a land of honor and justice where Muslims could hold their heads high, where the call to prayer filled the air and the pavement was littered with roses. Instead it was a vortex of violence and corruption where men hoarded cars and women settled scores against neighbors and foes, as though it were one long mafia war.

Lord Acton's famous dictum "All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

For the tendency of all "governments" is to infringe the standards of decency and truth; this is inherent in their nature and hardly avoidable in their practice.

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, as it addeth deformity to an ape, to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion, makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt, into a number of petty observances.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.