Quotes About Corruption

The paper's self-confessed love affair is with the advertiser and its flourishing bottomline gives it the power to desecrate editorial space and express the confident view that all other media houses will soon follow its example.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

All those who talk about democracy, freedom, and the rule of law, of human rights, of the fight against corruption are, I believe, important allies.

There are no human rights to corrupt our children.

I'm actually a humanist, believe it or not, and I believe even when people are corrupted, even when they've gone to the dark side, they are still human beings.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

Maybe speech and communication have been corrupted. They're thoroughly permeated by money - and not by accident but by their very nature. We've got to hijack speech. Creating has always been something different from communicating. The key thing may be to create vacuoles on noncommunication, circuit breakers, so that we can elude control.

It infects you. It ruined me.

People have to do awful things for the money.

Speer's moral corruption had its seed in his emotional attachment to Hitler–he likened it to Faust's fatal bargain with Mephistopheles. Achievement and success rooting it ever deeper over the years, he lived–almost addictively–in an increasingly vicious cycle of need and dependence.

Pure, raging, unbridled capitalism. Now, if they could just find ways to steal our raw materials, evade taxation, and not pay our workers their wages, our profit margin might begin to approach what those guys would consider minimally acceptable.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC)

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

O Sínodo de Dort em 1618 condenou Armínio como corruptor da fé, embora não tenha chegado ao patamar explícito da Assembleia de Westminster 30 anos depois. Essa última confissão é o marco do ápice do protestantismo. Nenhum outro credo é tão detalhado e tão fiel às Escrituras.

In a republic, they believed, no person should be allowed to exploit the public's authority for private gain.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

say very mildly, we have only one political party in the U.S., the Property Party, with two right wings, Republican and Democrat.

Many years ago, there used to be something called 'conflict of interest.' No longer, I'm afraid. Today, we all bathe in the same river.

To want power is corruption already.

and the people. Hamilton was indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and honorable in all and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched & perverted by the British example, as to be under thoro' conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation.