Quotes About Corruption

don't really care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood...

Latin, the language of politicians, provides a fine medium for lies, malpractice, obfuscation and straight bamboozling. It's perfect for buffoons, inadequates and crooks.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

Puberty corrupts - that's a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that's the concern.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.