Quotes About Corruption

Corruption is the primary reason societies fail to thrive; societies in which corruption is held in check prosper economically, socially, and morally. Nothing explains the success or failure of countries more than does the presence or absence of corruption.

The second Adam since the fall His germinal Corruption held the seed Of that congenital heresy that men fail According to their creed. Craftsman and castaway All heaven in his head, He watched his shadow pray Not for God's love but human love instead.

It's my fault, I said softly. I touched his face, the thick brows, wide mouth, and the sprouting stubble along the clean,long jaw. Mine. If I hadn't come...and told you what would happen... I felt a true sorrow for his corruption, and shared a sense of loss for the naïve, gallant lad he had been. And yet...what choice had either of us truly had, being who we were? I had had to tell him, and he had had to act on it.

The Scottish Prisoner (novel)—This one's set in 1760, in the Lake District, London, and Ireland. A sort of hybrid novel, it's divided evenly between Jamie Fraser and Lord John Grey, who are recounting their different perspectives in a tale of politics, corruption, murder, opium dreams, horses, and illegitimate sons

When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.

Donors don't control MPs. Donors don't get to decide what MPs do or think.

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

Government is dysfunctional.

Demonetisation has boosted our efforts to build an honest society.

The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

The Million Dollar Man thought he could buy anybody or anything and that was the essence of the character. About as evil as you can get!

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.

De hecho, no sé si realmente creía en sus teorías. Hoy me inclino a suponer que sí. Uno tiene que creer en algo para alcanzar tal grado de vileza

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power." —John Steinbeck

on the famous Lord Acton line: "Power kills, and absolute power kills absolutely.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Life is rubbish," he muttered. "The world's a bordello. People are swindlers…

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had seemed to us the sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin, that corruption's gangrene has spread too far to be healed by our scepter, that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heirs of their long undoing.

You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!