Quotes About Corruption

Instead of doing good as witnesses, we grabbed for power. Instead of witnessing to Jesus, we have become known for political allegiances, so much so that our politics are reshaping our witness into a corrupted witness.

By nature ye are wholly corrupted; by grace ye shall be wholly renewed . . . . Now 'go on' 'from faith to faith,' until your whole sickness be healed, and all that 'mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus'!

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.

As with anything worth achieving, the road to all-encompassing evil has no shortcuts.

Four: Corruption of the Innocent. That's you guys.

Maybe he knows it's cheaper to bribe a justice than to pay human labor.

Salvation is not just about going to heaven when we die. It's about becoming like you, Jesus—being transformed into your likeness. Only the resources of the gospel are sufficient for such a task, for we're not just separated from God by a great distance, we are thoroughly broken and corrupted by sin. We need a big gospel for our great need. Indeed, there's nothing more than the gospel, there is just more of the gospel.

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (2 Pet. 1:4 NIV)

Money has a long and sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands And starts to eat away at the foundations Of everything we stand for.

You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

I would take up wickedness

We have the best government money can buy.

Y la iglesia era sabia, sutil y conocía muchas maneras de esquilmar una oveja, o una nación.

El hombre es un museo de enfermedades, una residencia de impurezas; llega hoy y mañana ha desaparecido; empieza como barro y acaba como hedor (...)

Elle arrive enfin sur le trône, cette infâme religion, et c'est un empereur faible, cruel, ignorant et fanatique qui, l'enveloppant du bandeau royal, en souille ainsi les deux bouts de la terre.

The rot started