C Quotes
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“Corrupt corporate governments employ corrupt bureaucrats that enact corrupt policies.”
“Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.”
“Corrupt governments run corrupt courts that protect corrupt cops.”
“Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.”
Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.”
“Corrupt police departments are a form of oppression of the people.”
“Corrupt police officers are a strong sign of a corrupted internal affairs system.”
“Corrupt police officers are bad and a fraudulent police internal affairs department is even worse!”
“Corrupt police officers are bred by a corrupt internal affairs system.”
“Corrupt police officers being protected by a corrupted internal affairs is a normal aspect of government.”
“Corrupt police officers have an equally corrupt legal system to protect them.”
“Corrupt police officers thrive in a poor customer service environment!”
“Corrupt police officers? You can blame internal affairs.”
“Corrupt politicians are only symptom, real disease is populist democracy.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.”
Source: The history of the world
“Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.”
“Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.”
“Corrupted news stories are a feature of war.”
“Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”
Source: Collected Works
“Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.”
Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“Corruption begins at home and can end at home.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.”
“Corruption can slow down and prevent business growth, but it cannot stop the world from rotating.”
“Corruption corrodes more than finances; it erodes trust, justice, and morality. A corrupt act may enrich one person but impoverishes an entire society. Integrity is the true currency of public life.”
“Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].”
“Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
“Corruption free" will truly be in a future impossible tense because many people re-elect unscrupulous politicians!
In the end because of blind immunity to reality and impunity of "justified" corruptions in the government, it is always the hard working, suffering, struggling, less privileged citizens who are all the sacrificial lamb in times of disaster and calamities through their well catered embezzlement system.”
“Corruption, greed, and arrogance will be the end of politicians.”
“Corruption has been as much a fixture on these contemporary frontiers as it was during the colonial gold rushes. Since the most significant privatization deals are always signed amid the tumult of an economic or political crisis, clear laws and effective regulations are never in place - the atmosphere is chaotic, the prices are flexible and so are the politicians. What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting locations from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.”
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.”
“Corruption hates what is not corrupt.”
Source: A Princess of Roumania
“Corruption in any institution can only take hold, if organised elements within it act on delusional beliefs that do not benefit the whole.”
Source: We Are One
“Corruption, in these bugs, is splendid.”
Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
“Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.”
“Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to experience it as an opportunity cost. I live in Washington, DC, where the city council is notoriously corrupt. But how do I experience that? Maybe in streets that are not as well paved as they could be, maybe in a bridge that costs a lot more money than it should have. That's a little bit abstract - shocking, of course - but still abstract.”
“Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.”
“Corruption is a result
of low standards
on local, national and global level.
My works : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Netherlands, TILBURG,
August 17, 2016”
“Corruption is a root of all the problems a country faces.”
“Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.”
“Corruption is a true enemy to development.”
“Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.”
“Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.”
Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I
“Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.”
“Corruption is cruelty.”
“Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.”
“Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason.”
“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.”