Quotes About Corruption

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Le Jeuden, des Dreugen, Au Frauden

Un corpo imputridito non sarà certo reso più estetico da uno spirito radioso; anzi, la più alta formazione spirituale non potrebbe giustificarsi se nello stesso tempo i suoi portatori non fossero deformi, storpi, privi di carattere, esitanti e codardi. Lo Stato che non ha interesse all'uomo sano, lascia che la gioventù si corrompa nelle strade invece di prenderla per le briglie e formarne il corpo affinché un giorno si sviluppino da essa uomini sani e donne sane

Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? -- uncited source

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.

I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.