“- Eclipse: Tell me, what put you in the joint in the first place?
- Frank: Well, one night these punks broke into the garage and put a beating on old man Galetti. The whole neighborhood knew about it. The cops knew about it. But I guess these punks were connected, so the cops didn't do anything and I did. So after all the smoke had cleared,...” (continue) (continue reading)
Corruption quotes
84 corruption quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“- Lucifer: I'm sorry. After careful consideration, I regretfully have to decline.
- Dan Marino: C'mon, man, I'm just asking, let me win one Superbowl.
- Lucifer: In exchange for eternal damnation of your soul? You're too nice of a guy for me to want to do that to you, Mr. Marino.
- Dan Marino: You did it for Namath.
- Lucifer: Yeah, but Joe was...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“I didn't have enough strength to resist corruption, but I was strong enough to fight for a piece of it.”
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“In this system, our system, the slaves are unaware, both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart, and where the shackles are hidden amidst reams of unreachable legalese. It is a result of massive, pervasive corruption of the legal profession. When it takes a whistle blower to sound the alarm, it is cause for even greater...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Eisenheim: Are you completely corrupt?
- Inspector Uhl: No, not completely, which is why I'll advise you not to accuse anyone.”
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“- Bryant: Someone takes a dump in my department, I know about it!
- Vincent: They're shitting all over it!”
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“The greatest measure of the Nineteenth Century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
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“Trials are a corruption of the entire process and only fools who have something to prove end up ensnared in them. Now when I say prove, I don't mean about the case, I mean about themselves.”
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“Even great men can be corrupted, can't they? Communism is not a political party. It is a disease. It corrupts the soul, turning men, even the gentlest of men, into vicious evil tyrants.”
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“- Sacha Pfeiffer: We understand you settled several cases against the church.
- Eric Macleish: I can't discuss that.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Are there any records of any of these settlements?
- Eric Macleish: No.”
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“Corruption, thou art my father!”
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“Who weeps for these weeps for corruption.”
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“- Ben Bradlee Jr.: So it's thirteen priests?
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Yeah.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Looks that way.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Holy shit.”
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