Quotes About Corruption

Jeremiah was the godly messenger who warned the corrupt priests of the Holy Temple that their bronze and gold would be taken away and their Temple destroyed unless they cleaned up the corruption within. He is covering his mouth in the signum harpocraticum, a gesture signifying that a profound esoteric knowledge occupies his thoughts.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The rotten apple spoils his companions.

On the whole, I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The constitution] can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

a black site, a night chapel, spoiled land, a kind of charging station for evil. "They're all over the place. The Paris catacombs, Guantánamo Bay, Lake Powell, the Bellagio, the House on the Rock, the Golden Gate Bridge." There are at least two others in Oregon alone. The Rajneesh compound and the Lava River Cave.

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.