Quotes About Corruption

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls.

It's a filthy city. Everything here is trash. Eventually someone's gotta burn it.

Yo siempre me había sentido orgullosa de mi moral y empecé a pensar que todo aquello que rodeaba al sexo no hacía más que embrutecer y empequeñecer a los seres humanos.

of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to. In

When you live under such an oligarchy, there is always some crisis or the other that takes priority over boring stuff such as healthcare and pollution. If the nation is facing external invasion or diabolical subversion, who has the time to worry about overcrowded hospitals and polluted rivers? By manufacturing a never-ending stream of crises, a corrupt oligarchy can prolong its rule indefinitely.

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them

great power inevitably distorts the truth.

By manufacturing a never-ending stream of crises, a corrupt oligarchy can prolong its rule indefinitely.8

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

Depravity feeds on depravity, and with no sense right and wrong, there is nothing for them to hold on to.

That same January the city government had released a report declaring that thanks to ill-informed, corrupt, and occasionally drunken coroners, murderers in New York were escaping justice in record numbers.

Robert C. Winthrop says: "Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.

Que el PRI creó instituciones pero también pervirtió sus objetivos.

Gracias al PRI la impunidad se volvió una costumbre.

Hoy el país señala a los corruptos con el dedo índice, pero no sabe qué hacer con el resto de la mano. ¿Empujar las reformas estructurales o detenerlas? ¿Abrir más los mercados a la competencia o frenarla? ¿Promover un proyecto alternativo de nación o criticar su falta de viabilidad?

Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.