Quotes About Corruption

Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

There's never been a good government.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.