The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and insist that criminals must be punished. It happens in all countries, there is a time when the army assumes the duty of internal security.
The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul.
Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
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.
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
I'm only a poor corrupt official.
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all. . . it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.