Corruption Quotes

"Now government is necessary for our mutual survival deception and lies our devastating hope" "The television business is a cruel and shallow money trench a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason" "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile" "The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst" "The essence of government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse " "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs There's also a negative side" "The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs" "If gold rusts, what then can iron do?" "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" "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver" "The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it" "98% of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them " "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today " "Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them" "Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."