Quotes About Corruption

It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.

When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity.

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness

What condition is that? I've been in this condition my whole life," Liir answered. "It's the only condition I know. Bitter love, loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

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

So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end?

Thy chastity is but a more subtle form of corruption, and thy contempt of this world is but the impotence of thy hatred against it.

A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself.

De dónde venía aquella insatisfacción de la vida, aquella instantánea corrupción de las cosas en las que se apoyaba?...

Argent. Cause de tout le mal.

Bouvard thought: 'Ah, progress, what a farce!' He added: 'And politics, what a filthy mess!' 

Bourse (la). Thermomètre de l'opinion publique. Boursiers. Tous voleurs.

that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

Asigna una etiqueta «Para resumir un argumento complejo en pocas palabras: no son los motivos perversos los que llevan a una conducta perversa, sino todo lo contrario: la conducta perversa, con el tiempo, genera motivaciones perversas.» Howard S. Becker

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The average of their intelligence is woefully low, whilst their annals reek of overt viciousness and of half-hidden murders, incests, and deeds of almost unnamable violence and perversity

That the authority of the nation-state itself depended largely on the economic independence and political neutrality of its civil servants becomes obvious in our time; the decline of nations has invariably started with the corruption of its permanent administration and the general conviction that civil servants are in the pay, not of the state, but of the owning classes.

If you wish to found a republic, you first must pull the people out of a condition of misery that corrupts them. There are no political virtues without pride, and no one can have pride who is wretched.

Adam expected Mayor Gusherowski to look like a fat-cat politico fresh off the graft train—soft build, ruddy complexion, practiced smile, maybe a pinkie ring—and in this particular case, Adam was not disappointed. Adam wondered whether Gusherowski had always looked like a poster boy for corrupt politicians or if, over his years of "service," it had just become part of his DNA. Three

The damage those men had done. Surprise pregnancies, blackmail, extortion, even murder—all covered up with the mighty dollar.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.