Quotes About Corruption

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Beauty has its own vices.

The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)

The greed of power drowns our ethics.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money, doesn't that make it the root of all evil?

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.