Quotes About Corruption

Politics. It's for idiots and bad actors.

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.

I embrace my own festering diseased corruption

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

That might be the best any generation could achieve: to pioneer its own brand of corruption.

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.

You just pay your filthy money, and somewhere else, the ax falls.

That is why an expiring form of money is crucial. Power passed from generation to generation in the abstract form of wealth leads to privilege and corruption. Money must not be hoarded for its own sake but must be continually employed for a fruitful purpose.

No sois un hermoso copo de nieve individual. Estáis hehcos de la misma materia orgánica corrompible que todos los demás, y todos formamos parte del mismo montón de abono

From his research he knew that child traffickers walk amongst us. They stand beside us at the bank. They sit next to us in restaurants. Foster had scarcely had to scratch the surface of the web before such predators had glommed onto him, sending their corruption and trying to rope him into their sickening world.

Die vagabundierende Physiologie dieser shoppenden, fressenden, herumhurenden Klumpen belebten Fleischs, sie schändet einen.

Naughty business, this Empire.

This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging—bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart.

Especially politics; that was the best trough to wallow in. You could get your snout, eyes, head and front hooves in that mess of muck and have a fine old time splashing around. It was an inexhaustible subject to devour, a swill with a little of everything in it, because everything, according to Judd, was political.

Each of these parts has a different father and mother, but he assembled me. The creature was given life eight years earlier in a charnel-house in Prague: An abattoir and me its fruit, its marvellous boy...I was a clean slate, with no memory of what this brain had been, but I knew my condition. Living corruption, a crowd sewn together in one skin. Anarchy in every limb, and bones that ached to go to dust.

Other sovereign democratic states have central governments more corrupted other than our own, but most can fall back on unifying elements we lack: common ethnicity, a shared religion, or near-universal consensus on many fundamental political issues. The United States needs its central government to function cleanly, openly, and efficiently because it's one of the few things binding us together.

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day.

Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…

Ä°nsanlar doÄŸduklar? zaman iyidir ama dünya onlar? kötüleÅŸtirir. Dünya zaten hep kötüdür ve her gün daha da kötü bir yer hâline gelir.

a criminal conspiracy devoted to theft of property

What would he say? All the junkie shit going down these days, he opted to blame it on the drug trade. Some druggie punched him in the face, yelling something, kept going, didn't even try to take his wallet. Someone should do something about all these pushers. An enactment of how decent people felt these days: things are off-kilter, the world is overtaken by shadow.