29 Movie Quotes about Corruption (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 What's that? You mean they also take bribes in Hell?

Quote from Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave

12 We always knock over a few cathouses before election. You know that. To get the family vote.

Vincent Gardenia as Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman in The Front Page (1974)

13 Go on. You'd hang your own mother for a couple of lousy votes.

Quote from The Front Page (1974)

14 Go! Get thee down, for thy people have corrupted themselves.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

15 When a man becomes weak enough to accept a bribe, he's already a dying man.

Quote from Gilda (1946)

16 I need, Don Corleone, those politicians that you carry in your pocket like so many nickels and dimes.

Quote from The Godfather (1972)

17 It's not anything strange that there are corrupt officers in police departments. The dirt they're trying to clean up is bound to rub off on some, but not all of them. Maybe one out of 100. The other 99 are honest men trying to do an honest job.

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

18 Hey, I don't think so. I just greased the palms of those people. They won't send investigators. They'd take too long to get here.

Quote from Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave

19 For all these years, I've been trying all that I can to expose these corrupt officials, and restore law and order.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

20 The name of the game is collusion. Everybody's got his hand in everyone else's pocket, and mums the word. Otherwise, the game gets cold.

Quote from Longstreet