Corrupt Society Quotes

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago.... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.

A loose and depraved people… love laws and an administration like themselves.

Texas is the rendezvous of absconding villainy, desperate adventure, and lawless ruffianism—the ark of safety to swindlers, gamblers, robbers and rogues of every size and degree. Its distinguishing characteristic is unmitigated depravity.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.