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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

How can a world full of evil, corrupt people also contain such beauty? — Madison Sevier

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

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. — Ginger Baker

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. — Blaise Pascal

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless. — Eric Hoffer

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

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good. — Laozi

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system. — Jerry Brown

The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity — Gary York

The U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted. — Michael Lewis

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

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians. — Roy Fuller

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton

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

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now. — Dick Dale

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

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt — Tacitus

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

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. — Tacitus

This world is too comfort to be changed.
This world is too corrupt to be conserved. — Toba Beta

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

Yes, I would be very honored to corrupt you in whatever ways you like. — Cara McKenna

Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments. — Steven Magee

Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. — Jana Oliver

You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong. — Suzy Kassem

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture. — J.C. Ryle

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

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. — Ted Nugent

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

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom — William Law

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

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place. — Beau Willimon

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose ... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. — David Ogilvy

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. — Tacitus

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking. — Gerald Vizenor

Did you know?" I snarled. "Did you help take my father and corrupt my life? — Oliver Bowden

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? — Walt Whitman

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel. — Steven Magee

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

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies. — Suzy Kassem

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

Where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God. — John Calvin

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

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. — Euripides

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

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely. — Robert Black

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. — Ovid

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. — Menander

He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist. — Primo Levi

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

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. — William Pitt

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically. — Andrei Codrescu