Quotes About Corruption

bien sabemos tú y yo que en la lucha por el poder y el dinero sólo juegan limpios los perdedores.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

It was an odious process whereby one wined and dined one's constituents and gave speeches. It was all many degrees more shameless than anything we complain of today, not least because one was quite literally expected to pay each elector two guineas as a bribe.

As nations become corrupt and vicious," he says, "they have more need of masters." The root of the word "vicious" is "vice"—the word simply means "full of vice." So Franklin, without feeling the need to explain himself much, is bluntly saying that "freedom requires virtue." And that less virtue inevitably begets less freedom. In

It is the universal corruption and profligacy of the times, which taking its rise amongst the rich and luxurious has now extended its baneful influence and spread its destructive poison through the whole body of the people.

No sooner is a playhouse opened in any part of the Kingdom than it at once becomes surrounded by a halo of brothels.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

People always rely on the incompetent idiot defense—it doesn't hurt them. Look at Iran-Contra. They named an airport after that guy.

La trama conspirativa es una respuesta a la "vida puerca".

There is a method in man's wickedness—It grows up by degrees.

We traced a payment from one Antem Sergeyevich Yershov, a mid-tier oligarch,' said Silver. Mid-tier meaning that he was merely obscenely wealthy, rather than functionally an independent nation state in his own right.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

After the Civil War, Worth drifted, like so many veterans, to New York City, which by the mid-1860s was already one of the most concentratedly criminal places on earth. The politicians were up for sale, the magistrates and the police were corrupt

He was small, thin, greedy, clever, morally void, and monstrously bent. March "took corruption for granted,37 and used it casually and openly." He had been imprisoned for bribery and escaped to France, and by 1939 he was the richest, and dodgiest, man in Spain, nicknamed "the last pirate of the Mediterranean

inverse of the word live is evil.

Fannie and Freddie also spent some of their profits on lobbying and political contributions, cementing the cozy relationship

Oh, señora condesa, parece que ha adivinado usted mi pensamiento! Como usted, yo he observado la corrupción de las costumbres, hija de la desenvoltura francesa; como usted, he observado el descuido de las madres, la ceguera de los padres, la malicia de las tías, la complicidad de las primas y la debilidad de las abuelas; y he dicho: «orden, rigor, cautela, reclusión, tiranía, o si no dentro de poco la sociedad se precipitará en los abismos del pecado».