Quotes About Corruption

no different from the myriad of other politicos he'd bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience.

cuanto más arriba en el escalafón se encuentran los trabajadores, más propensos a engañar son.

as Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson later noted,1 "in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus ("this is the body"), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.

El nepotismo es una inclinación humana universal, y un azote universal de las grandes organizaciones. Tiene fama de socavar los países que dirigen dinastías hereditarias y de paralizar gobiernos y empresas del Tercer Mundo.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

In search of love and music my whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing

Many bureaucracies have petty authoritarians within them, generating unnecessary rules and procedures simply to express and cement power. Such people produce powerful undercurrents of resentment around them which, if expressed, would limit their expression of pathological power. It is in this manner that the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It's a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification. Such a philosophy judges Being and becoming alike, and deems them flawed. It denounces truth as insufficient and the honest man as deluded. It is a philosophy that both brings about and then justifies the endemic corruption of the world.

Cuando la estructura de una institución se ha vuelto corrupta -sobre todo de acuerdo a sus propios principios- criticarla es un acto de amistad.

It's also not for the best that all human corruption is uncritically laid at society's feet. That conclusion merely displaces the problem, back in time.

Incompetent and corrupt intellectuals thrive on such activity, such games. The first players of a given game of this sort are generally the brightest of the participants. They weave a story around their causal principle of choice, demonstrating how that hypothetically primary motivational force profoundly contributed to any given domain of human activity.

Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado.

the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

from camouflaging your vice with virtue. What shall I do with the world? Conduct myself as if Being is more valuable than Non-Being. Act so that you are not made bitter and corrupt by the tragedy of existence. That's the essence of Rule 1 (Stand up straight with your shoulders back): confront the uncertainty of the world voluntarily, and with faith and courage.

The same pattern of creative conflict pervades the Old Testament, which is in large part a series of stories about the spirit in prophetic opposition to the inevitable corruption of dogma harnessed to serve power. It is the personality who mimics that model who might be regarded as truly Western, in the deepest of psychological senses.

All these thinkers, all centrally concerned with pathology both individual and cultural, came to the same conclusion: lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.