Quotes About Corruption

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

evil is always self-consuming. Even as Mannington overthrows the prime minister, he must himself begin to fear for his own security.

the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne published the results of an extensive study of international money laundering.9 The authors compared the banking systems of two hundred countries. The Vatican ranked in the top ten money laundering havens, behind Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and Liechtenstein, but ahead of Singapore.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Vulgar of manner, overfed. Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night; Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute, Ruled by boss and prostitute; Purple-robed and pauper-clad, Raving, rotting, money-mad; A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, A wilderness of human flesh; Crazed with avarice, lust and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

The insolence of office.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.

These monstrous views,... these venomous teachings.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

There's a small choice in rotten apples.