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Quotes About Corruption

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
~ Loretta Lynch
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
~ Imran Khan
There is so much corruption in India that some filmmakers were using political or administrative sources to get access.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~ Saint Augustine
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
~ James Monroe
What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many ways, the Soviet system was deeply corrupt and evil, but the Soviet system did not arrive to us from some other planet. It was devised by humans.
~ Craig Mazin
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
~ Ellen G. White
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
~ Christopher Buckley
The truth had been said but evil had been done.
~ Err:509
In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing
~ Joni Mitchell
I love you more than the corruption in thge world...!!!
~ M.Rehan Behleem
When men first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it.
~ Napoleon Hill
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Also consider that lobbyists—this annoying race of lobbyists—cannot exist in a municipality or small region.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
how they use public office as a means to satisfy personal greed.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For Seneca, the Stoic sage should withdraw from public efforts when unheeded and the state is corrupt beyond repair. It is wiser to wait for self-destruction
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
That awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is downright unethical to use public office for enrichment.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
evil is the nature of mankind.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I choose to be known as scythe Anastasia after the youngest member of the family Romanov she was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was had she lived who knows what she might have done. perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. choose to be scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that night have been
~ Neal Shusterman
we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.
~ Neal Shusterman