Quotes About Corruption

You don't buy a Supreme Court judge," Max said. "Nobody ever has.

Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.

Greedy corporations sought profits above all else and a corrupt Senate did nothing to stop them

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.

This "they win, the people lose" formula has become the one that has now set the world on its calamitous course.

je suis l'empire à la fin de la décadence.

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Pjäsen handlade, sa Konungen till mig, om att ondskan funnes i så hög grad hos dessa människor vid hovet att de liknade apor eller djävlar; de gladde sig åt andras olyckor och sörjde över deras framgångar, detta vore det som druidernas tid kallades Kannibalism, Anthropophagie. Därför befunno vi oss bland Kannibaler.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

We must work the system without allowing the system to corrupt us.

The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." – GENESIS 8:21

In his last incarnation, Collin sees only one position for himself: to serve the power that weighs on us all. He proposes to replace Bibi-Lupin as head of the Sûreté. "I have no other ambition than to be an instrument of law and repression instead of corruption. . . . I am the general of the underworld and I surrender.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.

So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.

I've never met a good politician.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Politicians see conspiracies everywhere

For some years now she has also been playing another role: trying to roll back corruption, in a small way, by sitting on a medical compensation board, reviewing the claims from former guerrillas disabled in the independence war. The compensation fund set up to make grants to them has been ransacked by false claimants, for fictitious injuries. Several perfectly fit cabinet members have qualified as quadriplegics and are being paid for hundred per cent disability.

Nothing corrupts like happiness. It makes us think that since we share this moment, we can also share the past.

the Panama Scandal of 1888–92, centered on widespread bribery of French officials and parliamentarians in order to obtain loans to finance a French company seeking to build a canal through Panama.

If Peter is indeed condemning Judaizers and Jewish opponents of Christianity, his descriptions of them are sharply ironic. Reversion to the "world" (2:20) is a reversion to the world of the Old Covenant order, to a world of corruption that is about to be destroyed, to the practices and life of the "fleshly" covenant of the Jews.

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.