Quotes About Corruption

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public knowing about.

The day's most vivid exchanges were about a delicate but serious matter: the extreme foreignness of native Hawaiians. Both sides used racial arguments. Annexationists said the islanders' evident savagery made it urgent for a civilizing force to take their country and uplift them. Opponents countered that it would be madness to bring such savages into union with the United States, where they could corrupt white people.

It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.

The land is alive. It draws its life from the people who work it, just as they draw their life from the king. If corruption taints the king, the people suffer—yes, and eventually, the land will suffer as well. That is the way of it.

militant Fascism was a natural ally of extortion.

To be convicted of a crime in the Philippines is almost to be convicted of lacking influence.

With America's blessing, Manila under the Marcoses became a center for money-laundering, arms trafficking, narcotics, amphetamines, gambling, white slavery, and the world center for child prostitution.

Self-interest in Filipino politics was openly celebrated.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. 'Lawyers,' he whispered.

The law is where reality goes to die.

the Eagle, had compromised and as a consequence owned nearly a third of the key positions in the House and almost as many in the Senate.

Government can do whatever it wants, kick the crap out of their political opponents while ignoring the crimes committed by their friends.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.

America is smarter than the politicians. America is demanding a change and not more of the same cronyism, not more of the same deception, corruption, and business. Washington, D.C., needs to be shaken up.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right.

A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

The federal bureaucracy is committed to one thing: making sure they keep their own jobs, even though they don't do them. The larger the bureaucracy, the more corrupt and incompetent it becomes. The losers are those poor people who must turn to the federal government for what they need.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.