Quotes About Corruption

Isn't that what the Mafia does? You give somebody something they can't talk about. Then you've got them.' 'You involve them in a mutual transgression, and you have a mutual corruption. Sure.' So his problem is that he's insufficiently corrupt.' 'Oh, yes. Absolutely. And unsophisticated.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

You are a cesspit if moral filth.

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.

If life doesn't seem livable with the body's nature corrupted, not even with every sort of food and drink and every sort of wealth and every sort of rule, will it then be livable when the nature of that very thing by which we live is confused and corrupted, even if a man does whatever else he might want except that which will rid him of vice and injustice and will enable him to acquire justice and virtue?

And this is proved by the fact that when he obtains the power, he immediately becomes unjust as far as he can be.

the rulers make laws for their own interests. But

Examina si estas otras cosas no corrompen a los demás trabajadores hasta el punto de ocasionar su perversión. -¿Y cuáles son ellas? -La riqueza -contesté- y la indigencia.

Men engrossed in the pursuit of money are unfit to rule a state.

Every evildoer began by despising the Gods; and one not previously corrupt, taking to this contempt, even though in other respects not wholly bad, becomes an evildoer by the very fact.

He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He knows whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.

You and I are the mechanisms God has put in place to keep today's corrupting systems of thought from taking root and then taking effect in the hearts of our children.

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

And so the very institution we thought would bring the most light to the world has instead drowned it in shadows, and claimed that shadow as full sun. And we, poor blind creatures, have believed the lie. It

It's almost like rising to the highest levels of power comes with a side order of sociopathy—who could have seen that coming?

A beauty to tempt away a man's better angel, corrupting his saint to be a very devil.

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.

I would miss the kindness of good people who were compassionate when so many were pitiless, who made their way through so much corruption without being corrupted themselves, who eschewed envy in a world of envy, who eschewed greed in a world of greed, who valued truth and could not be drowned in a sea of lies, for they shone and, by the light they cast, they had warmed me all my life.

Maybe you're not a believer, but if you're honest, you'll have to agree that something is wrong with this place. Senseless violence, corrupting envy, greed, blind hatred, and willful ignorance seem to be proof that Earth has gone haywire, but so is the absurdity that we see everywhere.

The envious among them corrupted all of their kind, seeding suspicion and resentment that became hatred, which they called a virtue, bitter hatred so destructive that they brought Earth to ruin.

Dedicated Practitioners of Evil," or DPEs.