Corruption Quotes

I am a hero! Are you? - Chris

~ Yanan Melo

New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.

~ Grant Mclachlan

It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.

~ Paul Rusesabagina

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in

~ Harper Lee

We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.

~ Kenneth Eade

The Government goes after the little guys, not their own.

~ Kenneth Eade

Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.

~ Kenneth Eade

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

~ Bill Maher

Many such an official, upon winning a foothold in City Hall, thinks only of his own cohorts, and his own gain. So it is not surprising that public affairs grow stagnant. Truly, cannot fathom such minds! I can think of nothing so satisfying as doing public good in as many ways as an official can. Think, for an instant, as to just what a city is. As I said long ago, it is not an array of buildings, parks and fountains. No. A city is a living thing! It is, actually, human;for it is a group of humanity growing up in daily contact; and if officials adopt as a slogan, “all I can do,” and not “all I can grab,” only its suburban boundary can limit its growth.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

~ Lawrence Lessig

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

~ Youns Hussein

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

~ J.s.b. Morse

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

~ Edmund Morris

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

~ William Earl Maxwell

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99

~ Philip K. Howard

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.

~ Michelle Templet

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole...

~ Gabriel García Márquez

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Justice can only be delivered by someone who doesn't care to about how much he's paid, or where he is in the chain of command. Someone who's ego won't be inflated by grandeur or power. Someone who won't be influenced by this guy's being the CEO of this or his being the Mayor of that. And let's face it: that someone couldn't be human.

~ Eliza Victoria

Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.

~ Suzy Kassem

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization.

~ Suzy Kassem

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

~ Suzy Kassem

Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we’re all connected.

~ Brownell Landrum

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

~ Philip Zaleski

Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men blush not in actions blacker than the night, will 'schew no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke. Poison and treason are the hands of sin; Ay, and the targets to put off the shame. Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear, By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.

~ William Shakespeare

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

~ Oscar Wilde

Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for themselves? If no one thought differently, then where would our innovations come from? How would we ever advance beyond the status quo? Corruption isn't just moral or ethical in nature--rust is a form of corruption, one that eats away at its host like a parasite, constantly making it less than it was the day before. The belief that they should hold in greater esteem those who think alike is a form of rust, something that doesn't allow our young people to grow beyond the limitations already established by those who do think alike.

~ Tom Walsh

The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

~ Steven Magee

God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect

~ Sunday Adelaja

The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell.

~ Sarah Brownlee

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.

~ Steven Magee

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

~ John Fowles

Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.

~ Suzy Kassem

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against which orthodox Islam ineffectually protested, promoted ignorance and superstition, and confounded charlatanry with lofty speculation. To live scandalously, to act impudently, to speak unintelligibly—this was the easy highroad to fame, wealth, and power.

~ A.j. Arberry

You can not fight RACISM when the MIND is weak. You can't fight INJUSTICE or CORRUPTION when you're not a true follower of your soul. You can't fight OPPRESSION when you THINK and ACT like the oppressor. You can't become a CHANGE when you keep on accepting the same old results.You can't become a valuable source in society when you devalued your brothers and sisters from distant lands.It is impossible to change America when you see foul practices at institutions and don't speak up because it is not affecting you. What affect others should affect you mentally and physically, be part of the HUMAN RACE. Be your brother's/sister's keeper no matter what religion or race he or she is. Be the change that you want to see in America.

~ Henry Johnson Jr