Quotes About Corruption

Habrá hombre de sangre tan fría que no brame de ira al ver entrar a un ignorante ministro el tribunal que en tono despótico manda abrir los estantes, registra los libros que con tanto afán y gastos se han adquirido, y los lleva a podrirse amontonados en una sala del al Inquisición, con miles otros que han tenido la misma suerte?

he understood that terrible truth: that they were killed by the same people. Of course I'm not talking about the same individuals with the same hands, no. I'm talking about a monster, an immortal monster, the monster of many faces and many names who has so often killed and will kill again, because nothing has changed here in centuries of existence and never will change, because this sad country of ours is like a mouse running on a wheel.

Los vendedores hurtan en los pesos y trucan las balanzas, los reyes inventan impuestos y los curas pecados por los que darles limosna.

The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Here in Maine, we know that the system of special interests influencing elections runs contrary to our democratic values.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

Injustice drives me crazy!

Innocence has died in Bollywood.

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

If you want more of the same, Mitch McConnell is your guy. He is the ultimate insider. He is the epitome of dysfunction in Washington.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be disentangled.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent - and I guess some people never were.

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Although the medieval witch-cult of Western Europe derived from a primitive, non-selfconscious nature-religion, with sophistication it had become corrupt (as had paganism in ancient Greece) and developed into a pathological cult in which the doctrine and rites of the Christian Church were deliberately parodied, and evil instincts and desires were sanctioned and encouraged.