Quotes About Corruption

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

The sales tax, excise and property registration departments are all more eager to collect cash in their drawers than to collect for the government's coffers.

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Trump's foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he's going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

The Harvey Weinstein case showed us that Hollywood is rotten to the core.

I am attached to an incredible script called 'Wonder Drug,' about the DES drug disaster. It's a female-based drama, and I am so proud to be a part of because hopefully it will help evoke change - not only in our industry, but in the battle again corruption in big pharma.

Justice is horrible.

Who needs shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Scandal' when you can simply turn on the news?

In 2006, the DMK gave television sets worth Rs 2,000, but collected Rs 3,000 for cable connection from each household. By this, the DMK leaders have earned Rs 25,000 crore of income.