Quotes About Corruption

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man

Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

absolute power is corrupting

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Ill gotten power, money knowledge and qualifications will vanish faster than realized

We can't just sit on our asses and not live our lives while we're trying to expose a corrupt government.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.