Quotes About Corruption

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Greed is a snarling monster with a set of razor-sharp teeth on both sides of its head. It devours not only those from whom it takes, but also those who eagerly receive its plunder.

Let us kill all the lawyers!

For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

In our corrupt times, the virtue of a Pontiff is commended when he does not surpass the wickedness of other men. —Francesco Guicciardini, History of Italy, 1561

Elections to the sixteenth majles were held first in the provinces, and they were conducted so dishonestly that even the British were shocked.

Asking if there is corruption in Thailand is like asking if there is dough inside a bakery. Pies and cakes don't come from heaven and neither do deals and contracts.

Wenn nun aber die Natur einmal korrupt ist, was soll man tun?" "Erstens es wissen, als ein Verhängnis und ohne etwas Positives daraus machen zu wollen. Zweitens ihr trotzdem folgen. Ergreifen, wovon man ergriffen ist.

late Francoism: the extravagant bureaucracy easily circumvented by insiders;

a tendency uncritically to accept the prevailing "order", and to view the evidence of financial corruption and political clientelism as inalterable,

And I end by challenging people to ask themselves whether we can continue to allow the government, subject as it is to every imaginable form of inefficiency and corruption, to have such power to kill.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.

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