81 Best corruption Quotes

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. – Harvey Dent

Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power. In this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after ten years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. – Frank Underwood

They’re a rotten crowd… You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – Nick Carraway

Her voice is full of money. – Jay Gatsby

Tell me, Miss Starling, don't you feel eyes moving over your body? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want? – Dr. Frederick Chilton

Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head. – Jack Crawford

This is paradise, I'm tellin' you. This town is like a great big pussy just waitin' to get fucked. – Tony Montana

Money is king. And it don't talk, it swears. – Unknown

You can't change the rules. I changed the rules. – Tony Montana

Nothing exceeds like excess. – Manny Ribera

We're gonna make a lot of money together. A lot of money. – Tony Montana

Nothing stops. Nothing. Or you. – Warden Norton

The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook. – Andy Dufresne

I'm a reasonable man. I'm open to persuasion. – Warden Norton

Round up the usual suspects. – Captain Renault

I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! – Captain Renault

Your winnings, sir. – Croupier

You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel. And the only morality in a cruel world is chance. – Harvey Dent / Two-Face

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I suppose that's what happened to me. – Harvey Dent / Two-Face

We ran everything. We paid the cops. We paid the lawyers. We paid the judges. Everybody had their hands out.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. – Michael Corleone

Power wears out those who do not have it. – Cardinal Lamberto

The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. – Michael Corleone

All my life I kept trying to go up in society, where everything higher up was legal, straight. But the higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. – Michael Corleone

Everyone's a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves. – Tommy Shelby

I didn't know this power was in me. To be so cruel.

The poison drips through. – Logan Roy

I’m the linguistic acrobat who can make the sordid sound splendid. – Hugo

The truth is, you don’t want a criminal lawyer. You want a criminal lawyer. – Jimmy McGill

The top one percent of the top one percent, the guys that play God without permission. – Mr. Robot

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world. – Tyrell Wellick

You can't be half a gangster. – Nucky Thompson

We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. – Nucky Thompson

Power is a tricky thing. It has to be handled with care.

Atlantic City was always a beautiful lie. – Nucky Thompson

You can make a goat a carnivore if you feed it enough meat. – Dr. Frederick Chilton

This world is rotting, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me? – Light Yagami

I wanted to make a world where people could live without fear. A world without crime. – Light Yagami

Killing people is a filthy business. But if shining a light on that filth can help change this corrupt world, then I'll gladly be the match that starts the fire. – Leone

It’s not the world that’s twisted, it’s us. – Masaoka Tomomi

Don’t let your job change you. Don’t let it turn you into a monster. – Masaoka Tomomi

When a man faces a monster, he must be careful not to become one himself. – Kogami Shinya

My body... it's falling apart! – Tetsuo

The Shogun of the Dark... he plans to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate and plunge Japan into a new dark age. – Dakuan

Our souls are being eaten by this dream.

This gunpowder is made from a spore of the Sea of Corruption. It's a forbidden weapon. – Kurotowa

Your rage has made you powerful, Broly. But it has also made you a monster. – Son Goku

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible. – Holden Caulfield

The wickedness of men is that they can become accustomed to crime.