Quotes About Corruption

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Lo que está pasando ahora, lo que podemos llamar la crisis de la democracia, es el colapso de la confianza. La creencia de que los líderes no solo son corruptos o estúpidos, sino que son incapaces.

No longer can democracy and freedom be fully and truly secure in one country, or even in a group of countries; their defence in a world saturated with injustice and inhabited by billions of humans denied human dignity will inevitably corrupt the very values they are meant to defend.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.

The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who, pretending loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation.

Each day the traders are kidnapping our people—children of this country, sons of our nobles and vassals, even people of our own family. . . . This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated. . . . We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for Mass. . . . It is our wish that this kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves.

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

qué otro sistema político puede ser más ruinoso y destructivo que los vicios de los hombres?

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despite, or, at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.

Roosevelt said, in April 1906, "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.

Roschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985 Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout Save us!... and I'll look down and whisper No.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.