Quotes About Corruption

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts

The money turned me into a monster

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

The more money the louder it talks.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.