Quotes About Corruption

A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Page 147: When a poor democratic majority collides with a market-dominant minority, the majority does not always prevail. Instead of a backlash against the market, there is a backlash against democracy. Often, this antidemocracy backlash takes the form of "crony capitalism": corrupt, symbiotic alliances between indigenous leaders and a market-dominant minority

Human trafficking and drug peddling have become two of the most talked-about crimes globally, and like terrorism, it's a fight America may never win. The fall of one cartel leads to the rise of another cartel, and it's all because the system is corrupt, and those who wield the staff of law and order are also roped in the crimes. The entire system is corrupt and needs overhauling. The question

the street that depends on the crumbs from the criminals' table that stole his wealth to survive or the officer whose life and family are constantly on edge? They will just have to keep fighting crime and hope that someday people would be afraid to commit crimes, and people would be brave enough to stand up against corruption.

The bank is the only criminal that is not accountable

[Anacharsis] laughed at him [Solon] for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

Os povos civilizados são como os cães de caça. Um instinto corrupto os incita a destruir sem proveito nem razão.

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

for photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Les vraies universités ne sont pas celles que nous avons construites. C'est facile à dire une fois qu'on le sait. Les vraies universités subvertissent, elles corrompent, ce sont des institutions dangereuses et, qui plus est, elles peuvent être très coûteuses. Et pourtant, il y a un danger - et un coût - bien plus grand à créer une société dans laquelle personne ne sait ce que signifie être réellement libre.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Filosofii susÈ›in c? omul e pervertit de societate È™i de proasta guvernare. (...) Nu, violatorul s?l??luia în noi ca un virus È™i nici o societate ideal? nu ne-ar fi putut t?m?dui.

No matter what they do, our elected representatives don't give a fuck anymore about public opinion! They take drugs, frequent whores, rob, steal, cheat, sell themselves, commit perjury, make deals with the Mafia, and what happens to them? The newspapers talk about it for, oh, three days maybe? Then everybody forgets about it. But you—you who exposed the scandal, they won't forget about you, nosirree, you can count on that, and they'll make you pay for it.

Rothschilds' pour over $3,000,000 into the campaign of President Jackson's opponent, the Republican, Senator Henry Clays, President Jackson is re-elected by a landslide in November. However, President Jackson knows the battle is only beginning, and following his victory he states, "The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead!

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?)

The arms trade – an intricate web of networks between the formal and shadow worlds, between government, commerce and criminality – often makes us poorer, not richer, less not more safe, and governed not in our own interests but for the benefit of a small, self-serving elite, seemingly above the law, protected by the secrecy of national security and accountable to no one.

The whistle-blower handed over bank records, 'which were the key to revealing an entire global money laundering system, an enormous worldwide network of secret cash payments amounting to literally billions of dollars that had gone on for years with the connivance of the British government'.62

To cover these massive commissions, BAC inflated the price of each Lightning jet by £50,000, listing the cost as 'Agency Fees'. The commissions went not only to Gaith Pharaon but also to five Saudi princes.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.