Quotes about Corruption

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.

COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil. LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

For now I see peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.