Quotes About Corruption

la corrupción, un cáncer pavoroso que nos devora hasta nuestros días, llegó con los españoles, al igual que la viruela y otras devastadoras enfermedades?

el clero continuó gobernando las mentalidades y dirigiendo exitosamente a la nación a la ruina y al atraso.

Los arzobispos y obispos serían víctimas del desorden, o lo propiciarían como siempre?

Un gobierno que se vende como honesto modifica la ley para ajustarla a sus caprichos; otorga directamente, sin licitación, contratos multimillonarios o, para inhibir las previsibles protestas por la construcción de la nueva refinería de Dos Bocas, auspicia una reforma al Código Penal de Tabasco, la llamada "ley garrote".

no sería bueno que los mexicanos dejaran de creer en unos hombres que en su mayoría sólo han asesinado, robado y castrado las conciencias?

hoy los comediantes y bufones encabezan a varias naciones. Cuando un bufón representa a una nación y la comanda, algo está podrido en esa sociedad.

For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

It is supposed that power corrupts," the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "Yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

O outro evidente sinal da grandeza de Marco Aurélio era o facto de ele próprio ser a refutação em pessoa do famoso ditado de Lord Acton: "o poder tende a corromper e o poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente". Marco Aurélio detinha um poder absoluto, mas nunca o usou para fins egoístas, malévolos, despóticos ou corruptos.

A society remains functional as long as too many people aren't corrupt in too many places for too long.

Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

it's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.

But by any broad human rights criteria, the republican regimes of the region were responsible for far more killing, brutality, oppression and, often, corruption and theft of the people's wealth than were the monarchies. Between, on the one side the Shah of Iran, Nuri Said of Iraq and King Faruq of Egypt and, on the other, the Islamic Republic, the Iraqi Ba'th Party and the militaristic junta that has ruled Egypt since 1952, there is no comparison.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.

Yevgeni Krilov knew he was in a room with the richest man in Russia, possibly the world. No one did a ruble's worth of business in Russia without paying a percentage fee to the supreme boss, albeit through a complex network of shell companies and front men.

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France.... And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliation.

Die Partei weiß genau, daß sie nur jene zu fürchten hat, welche die Ideale ernst nehmen, die sie zu verkörpern vorgibt.