Quotes About Corruption

He worried about what he described as "an unwholesome entanglement" between the people who prescribe our medicines and the people who make and market them.

The Sacklers have done a pretty good job of sucking the life out of Purdue," she said. "Year after year, month after month, they were draining hundreds of millions of dollars." All that was left at this point, she said, was "essentially a shell.

The PR man dissembled. But to anyone who was paying attention, the answer was clear: by buying all those reprints, Pfizer was bribing Henry Welch.

Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master's wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the king himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter.

The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour – that is, a sinful odour.

one candidate desperately shovels money down a pit, and the other builds empty edifices in his own name,

But money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

podemos decir que los "chulos bancarios" son tan despreciables como los proxenetas comunes.

La otra opción es quedarnos de brazos cruzados mientras nuestras petroleras compiten con los chinos a ver quién soborna mejor.

People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

It's so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It's so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

And power will always consume itself.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

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Tisto, ?emur nekateri pravijo korupcija, je v resnici visoka Fideszova politika. Ho?em povedati, da si je vlada zadala, da bo ustvarila skupino doma?ih podjetnikov, ki bodo postali stebri mo?ne Madžarske.

Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.

You are consistently dishonorable and therefore immensely trustworthy. You always eschew principle and reward venality.

he said "Miami" left the impression of Sodom-by-the-Sea.

So gosh-darned crooked, he could stand in the shadow of a corkscrew and nevuh see the sun. So slippery, gittin' ahold of him is like grabbing an eel in an oil slick. So low a critter, Ah had to drain the swamp just to find him.

Right. Bribes aren't deductible.