Quotes About Corruption

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

The ruling of men was a dirty business—

Xi's management of COVID is today the third rail in Chinese politics—which landed him in prison for eighteen years on charges of corruption.109 Another well-known blogger, former Caijing editor Luo Changping, was detained in October 2021 for a new crime—that of defaming political martyrs—after questioning China's role in the Korean War in a critical review of the box-office-hit film The Battle at Lake Changjin.110

To be female and on the throne during the collapse of a Medieval Kingdom generally elicited accusations of lust, corruption, and general visciousness., The queen's sex life becomes a convenient explanation for the end of an era.

I was corrupted in other ways. I was led to believe that intelligence made a difference.

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.

It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases.

President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family's pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies.

We know that, sooner or later, reckless government actions and policies have consequences. That when government corrupts the truth and breaks faith with the American people, the entire fabric of our society - everything we believe in and count on - is in jeopardy.