Quotes About Corruption

It was an era of expansion, but also of plunder. Bribery secured public contracts and the contractor then overcharged the state,

It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption of voting systems and of representative institutions; hoarse cries for change from the streets; the undertow of violence; the mailed fist as the army strides in to 'clean things up'. The imbalance of power created by empire, unbalances the empire itself.

One of his best techniques was buying off the clerks that handled the procedural work for judges. We found numerous examples of major cases that were dismissed or postponed because a clerk lost evidence or changed filings, creating procedural errors.

CIA hired dirtbags to drop guns into South America. Those same dirtbags used their planes and contacts to bring cocaine back. It's not the same as saying the CIA controlled the drug trade, but it had the same effect.

No matter what they say, Democrats and Republicans in the United States do not control the government because they are best able to serve us and meet our needs. In fact, both parties couldn't care less about us.

Como Primer Cónsul, Napoleón decretó que todos los funcionarios públicos fuesen asalariados al servicio del estado, se preocupó de que estuviesen bien formados, y abolió la promoción basada en la corrupción y el nepotismo, reemplazándola con premios al talento y al mérito.

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.

That's Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

Luckily, American politicians tend to be cheaply bought and we have been able to outbid the Kaiser.

Do I want his dirty money, sir?" "No such thing, my boy! The man who earns it may be disgusting; the way he does it may be corrupt; but the gold shines clean and pure!

The whole concept of government is corrupt, Mr Turnhouse. It is not for us to judge those who habitually inform us they are our betters.

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

Since the dawn of time woman has been the root of all evil! The tool of Chaos, the accomplice in a conspiracy against the world and the human race! Woman is governed only by carnal lust! That is why she so willingly serves demons, in order to slake her insatiable urges and her unnatural wantonness!

Kings," continued Calanthe, "divide people into two categories—those they order around, and those they buy—because they adhere to the old and banal truth that everyone can be bought. Everyone. It's only a question of price.

Money," he muttered, "opens all doors.

Money," he muttered, "opens all

Ctihodný kupec Sulimir…" vydechl gnóm, "vzkazuje, že kupec Biberveldt je divoký vepÃ…â"¢ Å¡tÄ›tiná?, spekulant a vydÃ…â"¢iduch a že on, Sulimir, pÃ…â"¢eje Biberveldtovi, aby dostal praÅ¡ivinu. Dává dvÄ› koruny ?tyÃ…â"¢icet pÄ›t a je to jeho poslední slovo.

Money", he muttered, "opens all doors.

Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.

zestawia? katastrof? samolotu z dwudziestoma tysi?cami ludzi zabitych strza?em w ty? g?owy i zakopanych w bezimiennych do?ach?! To jest kolosalny przekr?t moralny. Tam nie by?o ?adnego bohaterstwa, nie by?o ?adnej ofiary. Po prostu zgin?li urz?dnicy.

Something has crumbled inside him. Something has broken. Like corrupt clockwork in a smashed watch.

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.