Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

You gave half a million, while you earned half a billion.

You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right.

You have to have money these days. The roads are falling apart, so you need a Pajero or a Land Cruiser. The phone lines are erratic, so you need a mobile. The colleges are overrun with fundos who have no interest in getting an education, so you have to go abroad. And that’s ten lakhs a year, mind you. Thanks to electricity theft there will always be shortages, so you have to have a generator. The police are corrupt and ineffective, so you need private security guards. It goes on and on. People are pulling their pieces out of the pie, and the pie is getting smaller, so if you love your family, you’d better take your piece now, while there’s still some left. That’s what I’m doing. And if anyone isn’t doing it, it’s because they’re locked out of the kitchen.

You know that when the local utility company is trying to assassinate you, that your research into their frauds and corruption is progressing in the right direction.

You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption.

...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...

Your Excellency," [Chief Wimbe] said, turning to face the president. "I'd like to congratulate you not only for what you've done in Malawi, but all across the great continent of Africa. We're having about all the things you're doing in Congo and how you'd had success. We're very proud of our president. But please understand, we're also at war here in Malawi, and that war is against hunger." He then asked the president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because really, how can you use the toilet if you never eat?) [...] Shortly after, when the president got up to talk, several well-dressed officials approached Gilbert's father and asked to speak with him. Knowing the president's habit of giving handouts, the chief became excited. They're giving us money. My speech must've worked. About six men led the chief behind a building near the stage, and once there, they confronted him. "In what capacity were you speaking such nonsense?" one asked, looking very angry. Before Chief Wimbe could answer, they knocked him to the ground and began beating him with clubs and batons.

Your leadership skill-set might be what we have been waiting for, to bring order and finality to major challenges that affect the global village. The vast hydroelectric generation capacity in Africa, particularly the Great Lakes region and along the Nile River, still remains unutilized potential not benefiting the people of Africa most of whom continue to live in darkness and depleting the forests looking for wood fuel and more fertile farming land.

Your loyalty to one ideology inadvertently conditions you to favor humans from the same ideology over the humans from different ideologies. So, ideologies can never in a million years bring progress. We are what we are, that is humans. And we have to act as such without identifying ourselves with some manmade label to look good and pompous

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

You want to play in the big boys’ yard, you need to follow the rules.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

All one great big lie.

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

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 the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

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.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

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 nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

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 is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.