29 Movie Quotes about Corruption (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about corruption, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Yeah... There's nothing free in this world, Jake. Not even arrest warrants.

Quote from Training Day (2001)

2 And he saw corruption everywhere except within.

Quote from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

3 Don't be naive. The law doesn't apply to people like him or us.

Quote from Batman Returns (1992)

4 Children going hungry. Corruption everywhere.

Quote from Mickey Mouse

5 Being his niece, you, too, may be corrupted by Satan.

Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General

6 For some reason he felt that it was inappropriate for a senator to have a corrupt wife, for a doctor to take advantage of his patients, for a wife to emasculate her husband, and so forth.

Tim Curry as Wadsworth in Clue (1985)

7 We throw gobs of money at them. The problems always get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.

Ben Kingsley as Cosmo in Sneakers (1992)

8 You think this is mink? Do you think these are the skins of little wild animals sewn together for your pleasure? You're mistaken. These are skins of human beings. People who have been beaten, sold, robbed doped and murdered by Mr. Brown.

Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

9 Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops, but it also means that I keep my options open.

Quote from The Hunt for Red October

10 We are investing in corruption, Mr. Roper. The business of corruption is like any other.

Quote from Enter the Dragon (1973)