Quotes About Corruption

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

All governments are lying cocksuckers.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The government means industry, if you know what I mean.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.