Corrupt Government Quotes

The Monarch is the Big Bad to this one family of former adventurers, but we've always known there is a bureaucracy of villains that is a workman-like aspect to them.

There is not upon the face of the earth today a government so utterly and shamelessly corrupt as that of the United States of America. There are others more cruel, more tyrannical, more devastating; there is none so utterly venal.

All governments are lying cocksuckers.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Narendra Modi promised a future and represented a hope. He wanted to rid the nation of a non-performing, corrupt government. People voted for him.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

In a county where power is in the hands of the local tyrants and evil gentry, the magistrate, whoever he may be, is almost invariably a corrupt official. In a county where the peasants have risen there is clean government, whoever the magistrate.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

A government, … protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The chief bandit is the head of the state himself.

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

The government is run by men who have the rudder of State in their hands and cushions of state beneath their High and Mighty Behinds.

Palestinians are painfully aware that their government is rife with corruption.

Statistically, a “normal” human being in today’s world is poor, lives in oppressive physical, social, and political conditions, and is ruled by unresponsive and corrupt government.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.