Quotes About Corruption

In my eyes, Bobby Boss was nothing less than evil, a wide-boy of working-class sport, a cowboy on the make, one of the little men who sells you more seats than he has to offer, wants more cash than there are receipts to show for it, an expert in securing a bit of this, a bit of that. Why had he told people there would be seats when there weren't even tickets?

What is the one aspect of this broken world that, when you see it, touch it, get near it, you just can't stand? Very likely, that firestorm of frustration reflects your holy discontent, a reality so troubling that you are thrust off the couch and into the game. It's during these defining times when your eyes open to the needs surrounding you and your heart hungers to respond that you hear God say, 'I feel the same way about this problem. Now, let's go solve it together!

Comme on se gâte l'esprit, on se gâte aussi le sentiment.

The stony soil of our heart, the rock foundation of our corrupt human nature, need not, therefore, be the basis for judgment upon us. It can be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, just as the hill of Golgotha was when drops of blood fell upon it and it was transformed from a place of execution to the Rock of Atonement.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.

It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Alan Whitcomb

I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him –without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best.

And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.

is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.

I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.

but no other friend would feel a lie as a sort of physical corruption; she could not imagine anyone else in her life despairing because he could not hear the sun's voice.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who are indifferent--extravagant and wasteful for the selfish--strong and honorable only toward honest men.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

He didn't think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he'd been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.

Campbell's Law, which says that any metric used to determine social decision-making will become corrupted by people who want to affect those decisions.