Quotes About Corruption

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.