Illicit Gains Quotes

In Mafia states government officials enrich themselves and their families and friends while exploiting the money, muscle, political influence, and global connections of criminal syndicates to cement and expand their own power…Top positions in some of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises are no longer filled only by professional criminals; they now include senior government officials, legislators, spy chiefs, heads of police departments, military officers, and, in some extreme cases, even heads of state and their families.

Corruption is a cancer on the body of development.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Alchemists are criminal and shall forfeit to the public all the gold that they have been able to obtain.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odorless.

Corruption in Georgia was so bad that no one could imagine life without it.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Ukraine gives corruption a bad name…. The Ukrainian politicians have ripped off everything in the country that was not nailed down, and then they turned to the stuff that was nailed down.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.

Corruption is the most dangerous public disease haunting the humanity, which diagnoses the public state of heath. The deeper is the corruption and corruption activities the sicker is the society and it needs a treatment.

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.

We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

The Government of Afghanistan could best be understood, not as a government at all, but as a vertically integrated criminal organization whose care activity was not in fact exercising the functions of a state, but of rather extracting resources for personal gain.

Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money

Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?

The trick is to steal big.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.