Quotes About Corruption

But it wasn't a Primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the backroom of Casey's Saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the walls. And there wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes, and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood.

El hombre es concebido en pecado y nace en medio de la corrupción, y pasa del pestazo de los pañales al hedor del sudario. Siempre hay algo.

confidence, fairness, corruption, money illusion, and stories. These are real motivations for real people. They are ubiquitous. The presumption of mainstream macroeconomics that they have no important role strikes us as absurd.

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the love of money is the root of all evil.

The love of money is the root of all evil." The other said, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Whether the Vatican by 1499 had become the sewer of the world, as it was later claimed, is debatable, but certainly religion and morality were parting company, the former degenerating into a business and the latter all but disappearing from the Church.

Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.

It was the sort of corruption Alex expected to hear about happening south of the border, not in her own backyard.

Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Madam Lockton had more than her share. The poison had eaten holes through her soul and made room for vermin to nest inside her.

I watched men win and I watched them lose. They were playing a straight house. Nothing was loaded. The house took its own little percentage and got rich. Money made in bootlegging and gunrunning and dope smuggling and whoremongering was invested quite properly in an entire town that stood as a monument to human stupidity, a boomtown in the state with the sparsest population and the densest people in the country. Vegas.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

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?

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.