Quotes About Corruption

Filthy lucre! Filthy lucre!" I could hear Sammy saying, with the voice of a man cursing the woman he has ruined.

Money makes the man a beast.

All evil is good become cancerous.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

From his reading he knew that the masters of this world were all evil, knew nothing of justice, and always sided with the strong and the false.

Capitaine Etienne Relais was known to be incorruptible in an ambience in which vice was the norm, honor for sale, and laws made to be broken, and men operated on the assumption that he who did not abuse power did not deserve to have it.

pero cualquiera con fanatismo, poder e impunidad puede transformarse en una bestia

Esto te demuestra, Maurice, que la decencia sucumbe rápidamente ante la codicia.

Mientras los dueños del poder robaban sin escrúpulos, los ladrones de profesión o de necesidad apenas se atrevían a ejercer su oficio, porque el ojo de la policía estaba en todas partes.

Para una mujer en mi situación era fácil conseguirlo; incluso mi confesor, un fraile maloliente y lascivo, pretendía que pecáramos juntos en su polvoriento confesionario a cambio de indulgencias para acortar mi condena en el purgatorio. Nunca accedí; era un viejo maldito.

The traders standing nearby, or really most anyone doing just well enough to pay for the services of people like him, needed to be reassured that those they were considering hiring were in a state of sufficient wretchedness that they could be paid as little as possible for their labor, and never succeed enough to pull themselves up from that state. Thus, the boss men reassured themselves of their own importance. Pull-down-and-keep-down syndrome was how Elimane thought of it.

Modi's impact on Punjab is zero because of large-scale corruption.

Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not saying there's no corruption, of course - but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption.

Every man has his price.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.