Quotes About Corruption

It is as though our very touch bore infection: things which in themselves are good and beautiful are corrupted by our handling of them.

Eravamo come due bestie in un Eden degenere.

And the facts were politicians liked money and power. They tended to be greedy bastards, more like whores than anything else. Most would sell their souls if they thought it would get them what they wanted—money and power.

En este mundo, si los cabrones volaran, nublarían el sol.

He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he'd been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.

Well, now,' the latter replied pensively, 'they're people like any other people...they love money, but that has always been so...Mankind loves money, whatever it's made of -leather, paper, bronze, gold. Well, they're light-minded...well, what of it...mercy sometimes knocks at their hearts...ordinary people...In general, reminiscent of the former ones...only the housing problem has corrupted them...' Chapter 12

Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... ?ovje?anstvo voli novac, ma od ?ega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ?eš... I milosr?e ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obi?ni ljudi... Op?enito uzevši, podsje?aju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...

Je porte en moi une âme corrompue par le monde, une imagination inquiète, un cÅ"ur insatiable; pour moi tout est petit : je m'habitue au chagrin aussi facilement qu'au plaisir, et ma vie devient plus vaine de jour en jour.

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.

Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

Omnia Romae venalia sunt. Hell has its price!

Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money.

All too often, the Christian industrial project reminds me less of a religion and more of the tobacco, fossil fuel, and weapons industries: willing to harm millions to keep their business going.3

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

Roman Empire had been weakened by political corruption and a series of invasions, mass migrations

Stale data can cause serious and confusing failures such as unexpected exceptions, corrupted data structures, inaccurate computations, and infinite loops. [2]

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders, Kwyna said

When grace is replaced by greed, and generosity is displaced by avarice, there is no limit to the depths of evil that can result.

Pride, which we have called the root of vices, far from being satisfied with the extinction of one virtue, raises itself up against all the members of the soul, and as a universal and deadly disease corrupts the whole body.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.