Corruption quotes

“- 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)
Frank McRae - Eclipse
Sylvester Stallone - Frank

“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)
Meryl Streep - Ellen Martin

“- 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)
Rodney Dangerfield - Lucifer
Dan Marino - Dan Marino

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption.”
Broderick Crawford - Willie Stark

“I didn't have enough strength to resist corruption, but I was strong enough to fight for a piece of it.”
John Garfield - Joe Morse

“When a man becomes as weak enough to accept a bribe, he's already a dying man.”
George Macready - Ballin Mundson

“- Eisenheim: Are you completely corrupt?
- Inspector Uhl: No, not completely, which is why I'll advise you not to accuse anyone.”
Edward Norton - Eisenheim
Paul Giamatti - Inspector Uhl

“- Kate: I can't believe a drug company would sponsor a trip like this, no questions. It seems so... corrupt.
- Molly: It's a corrupt world. Let's not argue. It's all less money they can spend on torturing beagles.”
Andie MacDowell - Kate
Anna Chancellor - Molly

“- Bryant: Someone takes a dump in my department, I know about it!
- Vincent: They're shitting all over it!”
Michelle Monaghan - Bryant
Jamie Foxx - Vincent

“The greatest measure of the Nineteenth Century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“- Capt. Thomas Fuller: We have got two S.W.A.T. trained guys leading this attack. How do we know the rest of the team isn't in on it?
- Lt. Greg Velasquez: Because I can vouch for Hondo.
- Capt. Thomas Fuller: You wanna bet 100 million dollars on that?”
Larry Poindexter - Capt. Thomas Fuller
Reg E. Cathey - Lt. Greg Velasquez

“- Mike Rezendes: Mitch, are you telling me that the Catholic Church removed legal documents from that courthouse?
- Mitchell Garabedian: Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid. I'm experienced. Check the docket. You'll see. They control everything.”
Mark Ruffalo - Mike Rezendes
Stanley Tucci - Mitchell Garabedian

“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.”
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross. It just happens, and if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothing but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor

“Do you believe that I'm going into politics so I can become a corrupt son of a bitch who sells electrodes to the Chilean secret police?”
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“- Dr. Earl Dopler: I need the room number for Dr. Gibbs.
- Night Manager: And you are?
- Dr. Earl Dopler: In a hurry.
- Night Manager: I'll see what I can do.”

French Stewart - Dr. Earl Dopler
Melanie Mayron - Night Manager

“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.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Hoover

“You have just said goodbye to oxygen. You silly, stupid cop. You refused me. I offer you the keys to a kingdom and you tell me you're an officer of the law? I am the law! Me!”

Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice

“- Mike Santini: This isn't the way to the Manhattan Bank of Commerce.
- Eddie Meyers: I wouldn't begin to trust a bank that engages in money-laundring.”
Rob Lowe - Mike Santini
Sam Neill - Eddie Meyers

“- Leo Davis: You've been in jail?
- Harry Binelli: Sure, it's'a not so bad. You behave and they make you a trustee.”
Frank Albertson - Leo Davis
Chico Marx - Harry Binelli

“- 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.”
Rachel McAdams - Sacha Pfeiffer
Billy Crudup - Eric Macleish

“I hear phrases thrown around like the corrupting influence of money, or the evil influence of dollars in politics, when more money is spent on the syndication rights to the Seinfeld television program, than on the whole of the last presidential election.”

Tim Blake Nelson - Danny Dalton

“Corruption, thou art my father!”
Ralph Ineson - William

“Who weeps for these weeps for corruption.”

Paul Scofield - Judge Thomas Danforth

“Having to wade through the scum of this city, being swept away by bigger and bigger waves of corruption, apathy and red tape. Nah, that doesn't bother me.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan