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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
— Marquis De Sade
Power will always corrupt those who have not learned to serve it properly" -Lurline
— Danielle Paige
Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.
— William Gaddis
Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.
— Anthony Liccione
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
— Charles Dickens
The whole f**king system is corrupt.
— Frank Serpico
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
— Thomas Jefferson
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
We love that which we corrupt.
— Kiana Davenport
All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.
— Steven Magee
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
— William Shakespeare
D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.
— Robin Wright
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
— James Bryant Conant
Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
— Anais Nin
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
— Camille Pissarro
Our moon," he answered, "is not like yours-the old cinder of a burnt-out world; her beams embalm the dead, not corrupt them.
— George MacDonald
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
— Loretta Lynch
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
— Dennis Potter
The corrupt begat corruption.
— Steven Magee
When we disempower women we actually corrupt the world.
— Iman Refaat
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
— Paddy Ashdown
I should have known better than to assume you'd been corrupted by the rest of them. Perhaps you'll be able to corrupt them instead.
— Brandon Sanderson
His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.
— Ernest Cline
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
— Mikko Hypponen
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
— Ronald Reagan
A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
— George Whitefield
You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.
— John Connolly
The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.
— Lori Lansens
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
— Carly Fiorina
The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
— Gore Vidal
The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.
— Matt Groening
There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
— Larry Merchant
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
— Felix Adler
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
— Benjamin Franklin
The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.
— Charles Eisenstein
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
— Wendell Phillips
Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
— Felix O. Hartmann
Rewards corrupt the unprincipled.
— Iimani David
There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.
— Gerald Vizenor
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
— John Frusciante
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
— Jonathan Swift
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
— Jack White
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
— Samuel Johnson
They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
— Freddie Mercury
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
— Pete Hamill
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
— John Ralston Saul
I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
— Zooey Deschanel
Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt people is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
— Christopher Paolini
Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.
— Cassandra Clare
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
— Francois Fenelon
It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.
— Thomas Watson
There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic.
— Richard K. Morgan
If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.
— Pierre Moreau
