Quotes About Corruption

The poison of death can damage and destroy the saints.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Some will rob you with a six-gunAnd some with a fountain pen.

A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his Master.

A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.

Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.

The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.

Lovers torn apart, nothing but mindless drones enslaved The cruelty makes me question just what I believed Brothers mourn their part, our hopes became so depraved This corruption makes me question just what I've conceived

My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Carnegie survived and triumphed in an environment rife with cronyism and corruption. Much of the capital invested in his iron and steel companies was derived from business activities that might be today, but were not at the time, regarded as immoral

Professionally, Hearst is a form of poison. Politically, he has degenerated into a form of suicide. Whoever ties up with him begins to smell lilies and attract the undertaker.

Imagine a New Testament that closed with the little Letter of Jude addressed to a second-generation church that was being corrupted in its creed, conduct, character and conversation. So is that how it will all end? What a depressing anticlimax!

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

Most politicians have some con artist in them, but worse is the con artist who has some politician in him.

When Communist Party chiefs in Russia went fishing, scuba divers plunged underwater and put fish on the hooks. When they went hunting, specially bred elk, stag, and deer were made to saunter across the field in point-blank range. Everyone had a wonderful time. When the king of Afghanistan visited the Tajik resort of Tiger Gorge, he blew away the last Turan tiger in the country.

Government in America no longer served the populace but rather had become a living, voracious being itself—it existed to serve the vast numbers of people who worked for it. And to ensure that the electorate never turned on it, it handed out entitlement payments—bribes, really—to a huge percentage of the population. Life in America had become an Ayn Rand novel.

corruption is a symptom of a deeper ill, the disregard for the value of the individual by comparison with the perceived requirements of the state. An attack on corruption that does not address this underlying subservience risks removing one group of corrupt leaders and replacing them with another group that is just as bad.

Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital.

Riverkeeper and other organizations have demonstrated, time and again, that some governmental officals, from the EPA and the state DEC to mayors, local councilmen and woman, routinely protect polluters and subvert the public interest.

The true root of all evil is power, and both government and religion are effective tools for massing and maintaining power. When

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.