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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. — David Garrick

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. — Philip Wylie

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry

For only the humans were endowed with the lust for power so strong that the raw passion of their nature could be easily corrupted. — Margaret Weis

Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; — Anonymous

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion. — George Gillespie

Bitcoin is not "unregulated". It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. — Andreas Antonopoulos

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. — Emile M. Cioran

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Jane Austen's Letters August 1796 — Jane Austen

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem. — Flannery O'Connor

We are corrupted by good fortune.
[Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.] — Tacitus

Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted. — Apostolos Doxiadis

every leader who strived for power somehow ended up corrupted in the process. — Morgan Rice

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. — Manis Friedman

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil. — Munia Khan

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. — Richard Whately

Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted. — Gillian Shields

When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness. — Kazuya Minekura

There was no way a world as corrupted as this could be saved or all of the wrongdoers punished. — Pooja Perumal

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions. — Henry Fielding

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

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. — T. S. Eliot

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority. — Horace

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. — Bob Marley

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders. — George Hamilton

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. — Michel De Montaigne

What I corrupted is what is called the truth in favour of a more marvellous world. — Anais Nin

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! — Philip Massinger

Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete. — Patricia Cornwell

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

Of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. — Richard Rhodes

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — John Owen

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality. — Baron De Montesquieu

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it. — Terry Goodkind

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany. — Benjamin Carson

Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon
it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone

the Essenes sought to keep Moses' laws from being corrupted by foreign influences. — Bill Thompson

He presented it with a length of string
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn. — Edward Gorey

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little. — Aristotle.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. — Ellen Hopkins

People are generally good but easily corrupted. — Vanya Asher

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them. — Virginia Woolf

I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world. — J.M. Coetzee

And you're wrong about something, Don. It's not vampire blood that corrupts - it's whether the person who drinks it is corrupted to begin with. — Jeaniene Frost

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to! — Steven Magee

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it. — Esther Dyson

When coercion of any kind is used in the interests of the Christian message, the message itself is corrupted. — Lesslie Newbigin

Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system. — Shepard Fairey

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration. — Alexander Hamilton

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles. — Terence McKenna

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. — Algernon Sidney

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity. — Joseph Joubert

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion. — Duop Chak Wuol

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. - Hosea 9:9 — James Rollins

I don't like good kids being corrupted by bad ones, Santa never does".

The Santa Killer — Stuart Francis

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. — John Adams

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. — David Graeber

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. — Eugene McCarthy

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. — John Lyly

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. — William Shakespeare

Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well. — Timothy Snyder

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. — David Halberstam

We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too. — James Joyce

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! — Moliere

We do live in a world with lunatic and mentally corrupted people, and still you expect I shouldn't smash some faces. — M.F. Moonzajer

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. — Jack O'Connell

Even great men can be corrupted — J. Edgar Hoover

Education is inherently socially inclusive; any failure of inclusion signals the presence of power. An exclusive education is a corrupted education. — Raewyn W. Connell

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. — Kate Elliott

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. — William Shakespeare

What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind. — Glenn Beck

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted — Thomas Cranmer

No matter how secure a system is, someone who has access to it can always be corrupted, wittingly or otherwise. — Anonymous

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. — Richard Powers

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

Those corrupted by the pursuit of power, despite another's attempt at unspoiled love, cannot be rescued from the darkness that devours the soul — Christy Hall

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now. — Bill Gates

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! — Joan Of Arc

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. ALBERT EINSTEIN — Catherine Coulter

Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted. — Thomas Pynchon

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. — Andrew Jackson

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army. — Petra Kelly