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Quotes About Corruption

In Western countries, for instance, it is legal for physicians to receive "bribes" in the form of cash by pharmaceutical companies for every new patient they put on their drugs.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.
~ Giles Foden
Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted.
~ Gillian Shields
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
~ Ginger Baker
there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary mantle of sovereignty know that their turn may come to be branded a criminal by their colleagues. We certainly will not be the ones to complain. For the sovereign, who freely consented to donning the executioner's clothes, is now finally manifesting his originary kinship with the criminal.
~ Giorgio Agamben
The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
~ Giorgio De Santillana
let grease his palm with a good dose of St. John Goldenmouth's ointment[56
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Ma in ogni caso non è ammissibile sostenere che versare una percentuale sia un atto innocente: implica, nella migliore delle ipotesi, il riconoscimento dell'autorità mafiosa.
~ Giovanni Falcone
Soltanto affrontando la mafia per quello che è - un'associazione criminale seria e perfettamente organizzata - saremo in grado di combatterla.
~ Giovanni Falcone
La civilización le ha corrompido, le ha hecho volverse humanitario y vegetariano.
~ Giovanni Papini
La moneda, junto con la suciedad de las manos que la han asido y palpado, lleva consigo el contagio inexorable del crimen. Entre todas las cosas inmundas que el hombre ha manufacturado para ensuciar la tierra y ensuciarse él mismo, quizá sea la moneda la más inmunda de todas
~ Giovanni Papini
The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.
~ Giulio Andreotti
Then it's decided. In the end, we are just as mortal as man. But while God will save a few, we will corrupt and destroy the rest of them. That is the best way to hurt Him. While many worship what you represent, most will come to believe that the existence of God is a myth." The woman spoke up. "But if they think He is a myth, won't they think that you don't exist either?" The Chairman smiled broadly this time. "Exactly.
~ Glen Robinson
This is the disease. This is the disease in America. It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both parties.
~ Glenn Beck
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
~ Glenn Beck
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.
~ Glenn Beck
Money doesn't talk it screams
~ Glenn Beck
The only difference between Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. is that at least Vegas has the decency to admit the town is full of hookers and crooks.
~ Glenn Beck
the last official act of any government is to loot their own treasury.
~ Glenn Beck
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
~ Glenn Greenwald
Because we tend to treat others as we have been treated, a trustworthy system leads to more trust, corruption leads to more corruption, violence to more violence.
~ Gloria Steinem
Crkva odlican trbuh ima, citave zemlje vec je progutala, a ipak jos se nije prezderala; jedino crkva, gospo i gospodjice draga, moze da svari nezakonita blaga.
~ Goethe Wolfgang
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN
~ Gordon G. Chang
China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.
~ Gordon G. Chang