Quotes About Corruption

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Companies were offering bribes to expand faster internationally, investors were scamming their clients, oil companies were funding warlords, manufacturers were skirting environmental regulations, all to make ever more money, yet no one from those groups were seemingly untouchable, protected by power and status and connections, and some were not.

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!