Quotes About Corruption

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

They who wanted office were accustomed to bribe influential men among the people to support them, sometimes by promising them subordinate offices, and sometimes by the direct donation of sums of money; and they would try to please the mass of the people, who were too numerous to be paid with offices or with gold, by shows and spectacles, and entertainments of every kind which they would provide for their amusement. This

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

México Nuevo, México Unido. Ante criminalidad y corrupción: tolerancia cero. Recuerdo por

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.

Walker told Kristjánsson about the Mossfon data and Wintris Inc., the offshore company belonging to Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, Iceland's prime minister, who had been elected on a platform of getting tough on the country's creditors and their offshore dealings. Icelanders were not aware that their prime minister was himself involved in the very activity he was castigating.

In 2010, Nigeria also indicted Dick Cheney in the multimillion-dollar bribery scheme. Cheney, a notorious micromanager, claimed not to know about the bribery.

Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.

Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to have learned from you is how to corrupt our societies and how to be tyrants? You will have to accept that this is mostly your fault

Sin so bewitches the soul that it makes the soul call evil good and good evil; bitter sweet and sweet bitter, light darkness and darkness light.

When CEOs become vampires, Congress outlaws stakes.

El tráfico de drogas en México nació subordinado a la política desde los tiempos de la Revolución, se reforzó en el Estado posrevolucionario dominado por el partido de Estado (PNR-PRM-PRI) y así continuó durante siete décadas.

la mexicana en la actualidad, no cuenta con instituciones adecuadas y sólidas para responder con rapidez y éxito al reto de las organizaciones criminales: las tiene que crear. Hereda instituciones que fueron diseñadas para funcionar con controles verticales, sin transparencia ni rendición de cuentas, con prácticas de corrupción muy arraigadas, y una sociedad civil desorganizada.

Now there is nothing. Nothing except the systematic looting of the nation's assets by a rapacious, self-appointed elite.

Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran.

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

What a sad world sin had caused.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Simony was an abuse of long standing. The term is derived from the name of Simon the magician who tried to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit from the apostles. It meant in particular the purchase and sale of church offices, and might more broadly refer to the acquisition of such offices by unworthy persons or by any improper methods, and to almost any corruption or "graft" in the Church.

Madison was also developing another idea: that the absence of clashing ideas and competing interests leads to overreaching and corruption.

America will not wear chains while her daughters are virtuous, but corrupt their morals by a general depravity, believe me sir a state or nation is undone. Was not Adam safe while Eve was innocent?

N'importe quel groupe de scélérats, pourvu qu'ils aient assez d'argent pour l'entreprendre, peuvent décider qu'ils sont un gouvernement; car, pourvu qu'ils aient de l'argent, ils peuvent engager des soldats, et utiliser ces soldats pour extorquer davantage d'argent, et ainsi contraindre tout le monde à obéir à leurs volontés.

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.