Quotes About Corruption

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Ako ho?eš da znaš kakva je neka država i njena uprava, i kakva im je budu?nost, gledaj samo da saznaš koliko u toj zemlji ima ?estitih i nevinih ljudi po zatvorima, a koliko zlikovaca i prestupnika na slobodi. To ?e ti najbolje kazati.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon

bribes often worked where procedure or threats wouldn't.

power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.

I have reason to believe vigilantes grow to like their work. That power, unchecked, will corrupt its own agenda. That violence, given impunity and approval, breeds more.

They both knew evil not only existed, it flourished and grew fat, and it reveled in its pursuit of the weak and the innocent.

when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly.

Money without honor is a disease. BALZAC

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More

Yeah, okay, that's how I was leaning. I thought about Oberon, how she ran her department, all those cops—and used her handpicked to run her dirty cop sideline.

It's that I no longer seem to know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I fantasizing it all? I must be mad! Yet every day I see the evidences. The very people I suspect produce the evidence, exhibit it, offer it to me. Corpses. Fragments of corpses they have bought for money.

Cause that was the criminal justice system for you. Money talked, and creeps walked.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land but the newspapers preen in virtue - Throughout the world the left & right the east & west, are both vicious

I know nothing that I may say can influence you, he said. You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican Party. There is no Democratic Party. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittlers and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent.

There's a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel's institutionalized support for Mubarak's tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

All the politicians in Uganda play to their fundamentalist benefactors in America because of the flow of money.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.