Quotes About Corruption

They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody.

a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment

How did they manage to make 'you reap what you sow' such a trite-sounding cliche that I'm only just now realizing that I can never get away with anything, and never have? For what twisted reason were I and all my generation told so often of the essential corruption and evil of Man that it took me twenty years to learn to like myself and another ten to begin to love myself?

Men blamed sins for corrupting their souls. Women blamed their souls, which is to say themselves.

A corrupt people would not long remain free. "He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue," he concluded.

Adams elaborated. "Power is intoxicating," he wrote, "and those who are possessed of it too often grow vain and insolent.

De todos los tópicos acerca de la política, existe uno que se defiende con más fuerza que el resto: el dinero compra elecciones.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Adults are the real monsters.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.

Trump and his cronies took it all back. They understand culture no more than a donkey understands algebra.

Pollution in your mind will make your heart BLACK...

The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation

I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama's government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.

The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.

Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Lobbyists used to operate by getting you to believe in what they were pushing. Now they operate by scaring you into wondering what will happen if you don't. Politics has become a job for the weak-minded and thin-skinned among us. The only principles these people know are the ones they're paid to have.

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Here

Corruption isn't about giving in to the seduction of bribery; it is about giving in to the seduction of human nature, the angry drumbeats of our primitive brains and the inner whispers of our feelings.

Lord Acton's famous observation that "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" has long been misunderstood. Acton was not arguing that power causes powerful leaders to become corrupt (though he probably believed that, too). Rather, he was noting that historians tend to forgive the powerful for transgressions they would never condone by the weak.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.