Quotes About Corruption

What really corrupts is not power, but a sense of powerlessness.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save and to glorify the world notwithstanding its subjection to corruption.

65. The generation of man is corruption; the corruption of man is the beginning of generation.

Information secured after the end of hostilities supports our surmise that some Abwehr officials willfully shut their eyes to suspicions about their agents. They thought it better for selfish reasons to have corrupt or disloyal agents than to have no agents at all.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slangedI wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

The world corrupts me, I think. Or perhaps it's just the weather. It pulls me down and makes me think like you, that one should shrink inside, down and down to a little point of light, preserving one's solitary soul like a flame under glass

And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better.

I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well governed, my experience has been of waste and corruption. May I suggest to Your Majesty that, if you wish to see a parade of the seven deadly sins, you do not organise a masque at court but call without notice at a monastery?

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor's office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

somehow, everybody is poorer except the priests.

Before they kill her. Alice is no innocent in this world. Just as well. Look how the innocent end; used by the sin-sodden and the cynical, pulped to their purpose and ground under their heels.

She is selling herself by the inch. The gentlemen all say you are advising her. She wants a present in cash for every advance above her knee.' 'Not like you, Mary. One push backwards and, good girl, here's your fourpence.' 'Well. You know. If king are doing the pushing." She laughs. "Anne has very long legs. By the time he comes to her secret part he will be bankrupt. The French wars will be cheap, in comparison.

The Commons. God rot them. ... They never think higher than their pockets.

Saccha hai yahan kangal, to Beimaan hai malamal (Here the honest person is poor, the corrupt people are rich)

A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.

They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

Power is infectious. Power is greedy.

And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over the blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid. Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise. Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice shard through my heart.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.