Quotes About Corruption

What sinks of iniquity these little villages can be.

For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations.

A conservative in the purest sense, he'd entered politics to defend the ruling propertied classes from the ravages of democracy and an expanding franchise. For him, the upper classes represented the best of human endeavour—birth, intelligence and culture—and they deserved to rule; inherited wealth, he believed, made a man less prone to corruption.

He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude ("drain the swamp") by firing more than 35,000 civil servants.

Big Mother walked home from the bus station, through the rowdy twilit streets, and the novel in her bag gave her a pleasant, illusory calm, as if she were leaving a secret meeting and the documents she carried could bring down systems, countries, lies and corruption.

The world is an unjust place.

Everyone knew how they dripped with perfume, were corrupt from soft living.

the mafia kills in the way a state does; it does not murder, it executes.

The fact of the matter is that an honest man wont soil his hands with politics, and he's given no inducement to take public office." "That's true, a live man, nowadays, wants more money, needs more money than he can make honestly in public life. . . . Naturally the best men turn to other channels.

What good? I'll bury them back there in the court and wait. I'll need them in the end. D'you know what it'll mean, your revolution? Another system! When there's a system there are always men to be bought with diamonds. That's what the world's like." "But they won't be worth anything. It'll only be work that is worth anything." "We'll see," said the Chink.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Jika politik itu kotor, puisi akan membersihkannya. Jika politik bengkok, sastra akan meluruskannya.

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. ~ JFK

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.

if any foreign or strange thing be put into it, it is straight corrupted and that which is sought shall not be obtained.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

The lifeless sea was ruffled here and there by a lost zephyr, by a stippling shoal of sardines, dark ash-blue lines that snaked, broad then narrow, in slow motion across the shimmering mirageous surface, as if the water was breeding corruption.

It's mafia,Mitch and illegal as hell.

every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.

Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.

Some of his transactions involved Ada policemen, specifically one Dennis Corvin, whom Gore described as a "primary supplier

Lacy said, "So, your story involves organized criminals, Indians who own casinos, and a crooked judge, all in bed together?" "That's a fair summary.