Quotes About Corruption

Uhm, in our universe human civilization has descended into a pseudo-fascist hate-mongering anti-intellectual humorless inflexible lowest-common-denominator corporate fuck-everyone-over paradigm of systemic inequality and suffering and misery except for the chosen few.

Corruption and incompetence. These were rebellion's sparks.

Can monks, even if they are free of desire, cultivate rituals designed to cater to laypersons' attachments and longings and still remain immune to corruption? Or, should questions raised about compromise in the name of a standard of incorruptible purity be set aside as the unrealistic expectations of an idealism that is not appropriate to observing Buddhism on the ground?

Aretino was a satirist on the noble if futile quest to reform his corrupt society by shoving its face in its worse excesses. (Futile because has any society ever reformed itself after being shown the error of its ways by a satirist? anywhere? ever?)

Oh, I say, if we were meant to come back to God, why were we sent out, why were we sent away? I wish for innocence more than anything, but I am conscious only of corruption.

Moxther fuxcker SBI Securities has defunct its web trading platform at 2:15 pm . cheating its traders Corrupt SEBI is engaged in this loot and protecting stock brokers

A tainted fruit; he should be allowed to rot in peace.

A corrupt sweetness lined the back of his throat, a taste of nightmare.

He wondered if his misgivings were caused only by jealousy, the revelation that someone who'd been close to Shem in the past had reappeared, someone who might possibly take on some of Daniel's position. Had he become greedy and protective of his status and power? The thought did not please him. He knew that power was a corrupting force, and that Grigori power was more corrupting than most.

I think this illustrates succinctly what the Magravandian kings have become," Tayven said. "Moldy, stagnant, rotten, and dank.

We have given the gift of longevity to those who have worked for us, but it is a corrupting force. I could give you that, Daniel, but it would ruin you.

Brinorah felt she could rub her hands together and a scale of evil would fall from her in flakes, a taint she had not accepted intentionally, but which she was aware had besmirched her as much as any other who had stood by and allowed Alomeah her bloody free rein.

Magrast was like someone's version of hell; there was opulance and luxury, but a dark, rotten heart to it. So far, Khaster had only glimpsed the other Magrast, but he sensed it was there. The eyes of the whores, both male and female, who haunted the mazelike streets, oozed a knowledge that was not just sexual. Khaster perceived a veiled invitation: I can show things beyond your dreams or nightmares. Come to me, succumb. Learn. Then pay.

How could their passion have become so warped, so blighted?

PJ McAvoy was downright evil. It ran in his blood and grew stronger with every hacking chain-smoking breath. I'd bet if you could see inside his veins, those corpulent white blood cells would be attacking each other out of pure spite.

We're in bad shape as a country. We're suffering from the collapse of both political parties. They're bought out. They're owned by corporate America, lock, stock, and barrel. The media is sold out. The corporate dominant culture, which is driven by the market, the bottom line, sells out everything.

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.

We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people—which is a minor part—and one run by the moneyed interests, which control everything.

Lawyers are the vilest creatures on earth—less than human

Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind it, it stays on the books.

No one stays good in this world.

What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?

What does it mean that the number-one funder for political campaigns in our state is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which is the prison guards' union? It means that law enforcement organizations are deciding who will be our governors and our state senators, who in turn write laws to expand prisons.