Quotes About Corruption

Nor was he less blamable for the manner in which he constituted the ephori; for these magistrates take cognisance of things of the last importance, and yet they are chosen out of the people in general; so that it often happens that a very poor person is elected to that office, who, from that circumstance, is easily bought.

like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.

Is politics just another word for injustice?

spending so much time with people who are willing to lie, steal, or worse in order to get what they want that I start accepting that as the normal course of events.

It was the existence of social inequity and the evils it gave rise to that in turn gave rise to the evil of secrecy.

How do you recruit an agent? The three Vs - vzyatochnichestvo, vymogatel'stvo, vera. It works just as well in English: bribery, blackmail, belief.

What is the value of being a criminal investigator in a state run by criminals ?

at the end of the last century, the police discovered two little girls of twelve or thirteen in a bordello; a trial was held where they testified; they spoke of their clients, who were important gentlemen; one of them opened her mouth to give a name. The judge abruptly stopped her: Do not sully the name of an honest man!

If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.

When a country has political parties, sooner or later it becomes impossible to intervene effectively in public affairs without joining a party and playing the game.

I know the Press only too well. Almost all editors hide away in spider-dens, men without thought of Family or Public Interest or the humble delights of jaunts out-of-doors, plotting how they can put over their lies, and advance their own positions and fill their greedy pocketbooks by calumniating Statesmen who have given their all for the common good and who are vulnerable because they stand out in the fierce Light that beats around the Throne. Zero Hour, Berzelius Windrip.

But plenty things like this happened before Buzz Windrip ever came in, Doremus, insisted John Pollikop... You never thought about them, because they was just routine news, to stick in your paper. Things like the sharecroppers and the Scottsboro boys and the plots of the California wholesalers against the agricultural union and dictatorship in Cuba and the way phony deputies in Kentucky shot striking miners.

Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.","Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Fiindc? nici o n?scocire rea n-a încolÈ›it în sufletul omului mai repede ca banul

Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame. - Creon

Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money 'tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.

You are the curse, the corruption of the land!

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life

I'm so immersed in all this evil, how could I not be evil too?

Money! Nothing worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting. Money—you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime—money!

I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.