Quotes About Corruption

Politics ruins the character.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Hence, being thus suited to the Age which had begotten her, being thus its creature and its likeness, she bad thriven in it as the snake thrives in hot and poisonous waters which for all purer and healthier things breed death.

Do you imagine that a corrupt age cannot revere, that an artificial age cannot be stirred by truth, that an abject age cannot rise to comprehension under the compelling force of genius ?—you are wrong to doubt. Was it not the vilest of the Pagan ages that gave credence, and foothold, and tenure, to the faiths and the philosophies of Paul 1

An evil life is a kind of death.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Plata o Plomo.

Si en este país hay un sospechoso, es la policía. LUIS GONZÁLEZ DE ALBA

Contra-revolucionário é aquele que luta contra a revolução, mas também é contra-revolucionária a pessoa que utiliza sua influência para conseguir uma casa, depois para conseguir dois carros, depois viola o racionamento e, por fim, tem tudo o que o povo não tem.

país dominado por las deudas, el analfabetismo, el clero, los agiotistas y los militares.

Low-intensity authoritarianism corrodes pluralism; new economic and political elites emerge, and their agendas take precedence over the best interests and the needs of their people.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Patrimonialism: supporters within the state benefit directly from their alliance with the ruler (corruption)

All horsepower corrupts.

Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.

What if, on some level, way down deep inside, right down to the very simplest, purified form of who he was, what if he was corrupted? What if there was some tiny, tiny fault in the first building blocks of who he was, and everything since that moment of life was just papering over an essential crack? And he was just a carapace built on a facade built on scaffolding and there was no real core to him, no real central worth? At all?

I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.

A 2016 study found that purchasing even a single meal with a value of $20 for a physician can be enough to change the way that he prescribes. And for all their lip service to the contrary, the Sacklers didn't need studies to tell them this.

In Arthur's view, it was laughable—even insulting—to insinuate that a colorful ad or a steak dinner might be enough to sway the clinical judgment of an MD. Doctors, he argued, simply can't be bought.