Quotes About Corruption

As many as twenty men who were tortured by Burge are still in prison. Their fight for freedom continues.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

Lelaki revolusioner yang berpegang pada prinsip-prinsip sebenarnya tidak banyak berbeda dari lelaki lainnya. Mereka mempergunakan kepintaran mereka, dengan menukarkan prinsip mereka untuk mendapatkan apa yang dapat dibeli orang lain dengan uang. Revolusi bagi mereka tak ubahnya sebagai seks bagi kami. Sesuatu yang disalahgunakan. Sesuatu yang dapat dijual.

Now I had learnt that honour required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained without losing one's honour.

The greater the power and extent of the state, the more room there is for corruption.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

The fact that FairTax principles haven't already been passed into law is an indication of failure at every level of politics in every party. It's also an indication of the fear most politicians feel at the thought of a tax system without all those little hiding places they love to manipulate for their own benefit.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. —Benjamin Franklin

How people pervert religious doctrine to serve their own needs.

Bureaucrats -- monkeys who hear no evil and see no evil -- are first in line for promotion.

Many evils spring from power," he said. "Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and be believed by men, or else they won't. Yet if one thing were required to kill them certainly, it is that my words should be spread after my death by the power of money. No teaching could survive a campaign of paid advertising.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

You can't trust anybody with power.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Hopefully, Donald Trump is just warming up. There is a lot of swamp to drain.

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corruption of the mind" was much more dangerous during an epidemic than "any such miasma and vitiation of the air which we breathe around us.

Yes! I am insinuating that as a result of the way business is done in the Rhode Island government, kids in state care will continue to suffer and be abused as a result of the fact of that money won't be going into the right pockets.

The police were very class conscious," Usha noted. "So if you were lighter-skinned, then they thought you were higher class and they might help. But they would swoop down on anyone darker-skinned or unshaven. Often, people went to the police to complain, and then the police arrested them," Usha said. One woman went to the police to report that she had been gang-raped by Akku Yadav and his thugs; the police responded by gang-raping her themselves.

Vladimir Putin's Russia is typical of dictatorships old and new. It does not try to censor everything. The regime understands that the total control of communism failed because it suppressed too much. On a personal level, the men at the top in the Kremlin do not want to go back to a time when the bribes they received were worth little because the luxuries of capitalism were on the other side of an iron curtain.

Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

As soon as politicians have learnt to buy political support from the 'public purse', and conditioned electorates to embrace looting and bribery, the democratic process reduces itself to the formation of (Mancur Olson's) 'distributional coalitions' – electoral majorities mortared together by common interest in a collectively advantageous pattern of theft.

Midway across a cold, clear stream she caught the black scent of corruption, and stopped.

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out. Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy. At once repugnant and oppressive.