Quotes About Corruption

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

One of the unfortunate things about greed ... is that, in the end, it will consume itself.

What is Big Government but the Executive's cocaine dream, an activity devoted solely to jockeying for position, in which he may find license for malversation, and may take the company treasury and direct it toward those people who will support his continued incumbency--it is within the law. Its street name is 'earmarks,' but it is theft.

When all politicians are agreed, someone is getting bought off, for how can the interests of their various constituencies be identical? Only if that identity is the love of money and power.

An embittered Douglass declared the United States a tyranny, a nation of corrupted memory, abandoning its victories in favor of power, greed, racial fear, and pride.

but it's been my observation that justice is conspicuous by its absence when it comes to politics and entrenched, self-serving regimes.

for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers

Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

Things are done according to money these days.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.

Corruption has come to him with fortune, — as it always does!" he said to himself

Corruption is powerful in the world: talent is scarce. So corruption is the instrument of swarming mediocrity, and you will feel its point everywhere. You will see wives whose husbands have six thousand francs a year, all told, spend more than ten thousand on a dress. You will see officials with a salary of twelve hundred francs buy estates.

The forty thousand francs you want would be, of course, a mere nothing to Ferdinand, who handles millions with that fat banker, Baron de Nucingen. Sometimes, at dinner, in my presence, they say things to each other which make me shudder. Du Tillet knows my discretion, and they often talk freely before me, being sure of my silence. Well, robbery and murder on the high-road seem to me merciful compared to some of their financial schemes.

Whenever the press makes vehement onslaughts upon some one in power, you may be sure that there is some refusal to do a service behind it. Blackmailing with regard to private life is the terror of the richest Englishman, and a great source of wealth to the press in England, which is infinitely more corrupt than ours. We are children in comparison! In England they will pay five or six thousand francs for a compromising letter to sell again.

Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.

In that there is nothing very grave or very gay; since the world was a world, governments have always found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.