Quotes About Corruption

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

the god in men is also the devil the moment it begins to masticate on the morsels of power.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that? I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

As a magistrate his methods were simple. Even for the vastest bribe he would never sell the decision of a case, because he knew that a magistrate who gives wrong judgments is caught sooner or later. His practice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality.

De certa maneira, era como se a granja tivesse ficado rica sem que nenhum animal houvesse enriquecido — exceto, é claro, os porcos e os cachorros.

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

Society is wrong somewhere at the root.

Doze vozes gritavam, cheias de ódio, e eram todas iguais. Não havia dúvida, agora, quanto ao que sucedera à fisionomia dos porcos. As criaturas de fora olhavam de um porco para um homem, de um homem para um porco e de um porco para um homem outra vez; mas já era impossível distinguir quem era homem, quem era porco.

Four legs good, two legs bad.' This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which

This war is a racket the same as any other.

Parecía, de alguna manera, que la finca se había enriquecido sin hacer más ricos a los propios animales... excepto, claro está, a los cerdos y a los perros.

D??ar?daki hayvanlar, bir domuzdan bir insana, bir insandan bir domuza, gene bir domuzdan tekrar bir insana bakt?lar. Fakat hangisinin domuz, hangisinin insan oldu?unu bilmek imkan? kalmam??t?.

Incluso los nombres de los cuatro ministerios que los gobiernan revelan un gran descaro al tergiversar deliberadamente los hechos. El Ministerio de la Paz se ocupa de la guerra; el Ministerio de la Verdad, de las mentiras; el Ministerio del Amor, de la tortura, y el Ministerio de la Abundancia, del hambre.

Los animales asombrados, pasaron su mirada del cerdo al hombre, y del hombre al cerdo; y, nuevamente, del cerdo al hombre; pero ya era imposible distinguir quién era uno y quién era otro

Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?' 'Yes, perfectly.' 'I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.' 'Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the bones.' 'You like doing this? I don't mean simply me: I mean the thing in itself?' 'I adore it.

all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

algún modo parecía como si la granja se hubiera enriquecido sin enriquecer a los animales mismos; exceptuando, naturalmente, los cerdos y los perros. Tal vez eso se debiera en parte al hecho de haber tantos cerdos

Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades

What a degraded cosmos. What a case of something starting out nice and going bad.

Cuando un negocio fracasa, miles de personas se quedan sin empleo o endeudadas; sus directos se escabullen llevándose millones en bonos y en fulgurantes apretones de mano. Y, sin embargo, a ninguno de estos rufianes, que son los responsables, se les escupe, ¡por no decir se les fusila!

En efecto, los multimillonarios se vuelven cada vez más comunes entre los jefes del hampa de la Rusia poscomunista, los magnates del petróleo de Oriente Medio, los malabaristas de los fondos de inversión y los banqueros planetarios.