Quotes About Corruption

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there's too much corruption in the world

Greed has always been humanity's downfall

A corrupt dies a thousand deaths. An honest, just one.

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

In a nutshell, over the decades the national policies of the Republicans had raped the region while the actions of many state and local Democrats too often were designed to preserve the assets of a select few at the expense of just about everyone else.

He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it to me in that one moment of instant corruption.

We hit slavery through a great civil war. Did we destroy it? No, we only changed it into hatred between sections of the country: in the South, into political corruption and chicanery, the degradation of the blacks through peonage, unjust laws, unfair and cruel treatment; and the degradation of the whites by their resorting to these practices, the paralyzation of the public conscience, and the ever over-hanging dread of what the future may bring.

One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.''-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

She'd grown to hate people in authority. They did bad things and got away with it.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Flex organizations do more than enable their players to worm out of accountability through their might-be-state, might-be-private status; they supplant the state.

What the "old establishment" or "corrupt, immoral elites" supposedly have always done, the populists will also end up doing—only, one would have thought, without guilt and with a supposedly democratic justification.

Nietzsche: "I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it prefers what is injurious to it.

I once saw a snake having sex with a vulture, and I thought, It's just business as usual in Washington DC.

We are weighted with the outmoded dreams of dead men and dead systems, walking-corpse institutions and undead, blood-sucking ideologies long past their expiration date which yet haunt the planet, entrapping the joy of the living within the dead ribcage walls of their rotting, false order, and which direly need a stake through the heart simply because they are no longer relevant.

la historia está demasiado llena de pequeños abusos y vilezas mayúsculas

The dark side is insidious. Hate will transform you into the very evil that you are fighting so hard against. - Satele Shan