Quotes About Corruption

Without careful attention, culture itself tilts toward corruption.

But success makes us complacent. We forget to pay attention. We take what we have for granted. We turn a blind eye. We fail to notice that things are changing, or that corruption is taking root. And everything falls apart. Is that the fault of reality—of God? Or do things fall apart because we have not paid sufficient attention?

If you are suffering—well, that's the norm. People are limited and life is tragic. If your suffering is unbearable, however, and you are starting to become corrupted, here's something to think about.

You have a direction, but it might be wrong. You have a plan, but it might be ill-formed. You may have been led astray by your own ignorance—and, worse, by your own unrevealed corruption. You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

People who think such things view Being itself as inequitable and harsh to the point of corruption, and human Being, in particular, as contemptible. They appoint themselves supreme adjudicators of reality and find it wanting. They are the ultimate critics.

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Thus emboldened, you will embark on the voyage of your life, let your light shine, so to speak, on the heavenly hill, and pursue your rightful destiny. Then the meaning of your life may be sufficient to keep the corrupting influence of mortal despair at bay. Then you may be able to accept the terrible burden of the World, and find joy.

lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Corruption of the form we are discussing is, in my opinion, integrally linked to deception—to lying, more bluntly—and more important, to self-deception.

Alongside the wisdom of true conservatism is the danger that the status quo might become corrupt and its corruption self-servingly exploited. Alongside the brilliance of creative endeavor is the false heroism of the resentful ideologue, who wears the clothes of the original rebel while undeservedly claiming the upper moral hand and rejecting all genuine responsibility.

The devil has taken possession of everybody in Ilhéus. All they think about is money and bigness. They're on the road to hell. Things are going to start happening…

No opina usted que el uso de guardaespaldas es indicio de que hay algo podrido en el gobierno?

La gente espera que la policía sea incorrupta, pero ¿por qué ha de serlo, si todos somos humanos?

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Al momento de escribir estas líneas, ninguno de los agentes o funcionarios involucrados en el montaje o la tortura de los miembros de la familia Vallarta ha sido sancionado.

a nadie parece importarle que la AFI, la Policía Federal y la PGR hayan mentido una y otra vez o que hayan tramado esa argamasa de verdades y ficciones que hemos llamado el montaje

Narración despiadada a la hora de mostrar los entresijos del poder, las raíces más hondas de la corrupción y su alcance, así como los embotados mecanismos de la justicia, Una novela criminal es también una valiente denuncia del coste social de las políticas que declaran la guerra al crimen sin poner freno a sus causas.

and, indeed, just as the most charming tune in the world becomes vulgar, intolerable, as soon as the general public is humming it, as soon as the street - organs have taken it up, the work for which charlatan art fanciers do not remain indifferent, the work which nitwits do not challenge, which is not satisfied with arousing the enthusiasm of the few, also becomes, by virtue of that very fact, corrupted, banal, almost repellent to the initiated.

No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Progress is the hypocrisy in which vice is refined!

Childhood awakens in meaningless routine; youth lives its best years without an ideal; and maturity, sterile maturity, serves no other purpose than to corrupt youth by its example. I am glad I'm dying. Claudite jam rivos, pueri. Ring down the curtain, boys.

Meanwhile, they who were so carelessly disposing of people's fates, he who commanded the legal murders, he who violated justice and made use of the law to maintain himself by force, slept in peace.

But the poor and the indigent, who scarcely made enough money to keep body and soul together, and had to bribe petty bureaucrats, clerks, and guards to let them alone, did not sleep in the peace which romantic poets ascribe to them; perhaps such poets have never been poor.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.