Quotes About Corruption

We are in danger of government by professional office-holders Ã¢â'¬Â¦

This sect preaches that there is little true Islam in this world and that the only option open to the individual is to denounce contemporary Muslim society as "ignorant" or nonbelieving and to take refuge, either in a special righteous community (like Calvin's City of God) or, more commonly, within oneself, to find purity of belief and action against the corrupting influences of society.

For the majority of Islamists, da'wa, or missionary work, is aimed at changing other Muslims whose understanding of Islam is seen as flawed or incorrect; they seek to call them back to the true faith. In the eyes of many of these fundamentalists, contemporary Muslim society is deeply corrupted, has lost its moral path, and is even referred to as jahili, or "ignorant"—a term originally applied to pre-Islamic Arabian society, a state of ignorance before Islam.

You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.

It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

I want ordinary corrupt human love

It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days—and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins—impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity—cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt...

Satan cannot create anything; he can only pervert the good creation of God into something sinful.

A government based on fear attracts the worst elements, who corrupt it from within. A shaky edifice, a government against its people, any of its people, must soon collapse.

Washington eats truth and shits spin.

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming'?

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?" "No." "Give it a look. Things weren't quite that crazy, but they were damn close.

History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.