Quotes About Corruption

Too many guilty people get off scot-free if they have money or influence.

Near as she could figure, government was just the biggest of the big cons, with everybody trying to get the best of it for themselves and sting the other guys.

And America? It was being taken over by corrupt politicians, a mainstream media bent on whipping up divisions, and an Internet full of crazies.

America's politicians were concerned with nothing but the perpetuation of their own power through the next election cycle. The

Anyone with honor and integrity was worn down and spit out by the political machine of party politics.

To what crime do you not drive the hearts of men, accursed hunger for gold?

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the chink of gold and metal. Mad music...

In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of Mrs Brown than you do. Never was there a more fatal mistake. It is this division between reader and writer, this humility on your part, these professional airs and graces on ours, that corrupt and emasculate the books which should be the healthy offspring of a close and equal alliance between us.

Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the writers of false books, faked books, books that fill the air with decay and disease?

I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets.

The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.

toda a pompa é construída sobre a corrupção; como o esqueleto jaz por baixo da carne; como nós, que dançamos e cantamos na superfície, ficaremos embaixo; como o veludo púrpura se transforma em pó; como o anel (aqui Orlando, inclinando sua lanterna, apanharia um anel de ouro faltando uma pedra que rolara para um canto) perdia seu rubi e como o olho, que fora tão radiante, deixara de brilhar.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

A procession of silver pencils marched down an endless tunnel of corruption.

Solitude was corrupting me...My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott Red Baker, Robert Ward Ghost Story, Peter Straub The Getaway, Jim Thompson The Godfather, Mario Puzo Suggested Viewing Misery (1990) The King of Comedy (1982) A Place in the Sun (1951) I Want to Live! (1958) The Wire, season 2

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.