Quotes About Corruption

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

History is the study of the world's crime

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.