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To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing is corrupting me.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
— Antonio Machado
Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.
— Richard Peck
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
— James F. Cooper
Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.
— Vladimir Nabokov
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.
— Laura Wiess
The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.
— E. J. Dionne
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
You are corrupting me, Theo." "But you like being corrupted, don't you, sweet girl?
— Juliette Banks
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
— Antony Beevor
Shut that thing down," Nick said. "You're corrupting my creative centers with static." "That's what she said," Cath said, closing her laptop.
— Rainbow Rowell
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
— John Lydon
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
— Benjamin Carson
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
absolute power is corrupting
— Richard Wright
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
— Daniel Schorr
It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.
— Marty Rubin
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation ...
— Thomas Sowell
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ...
— Benjamin Constant
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
— Samuel Richardson
Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
— Sue Grafton
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
— Derrick A. Bell
Solitude was corrupting me.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
— Caroline Kennedy
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
— George F. Will
Power is always a corrupting influence.
— Charles Dance
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
— Francois Mauriac
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
— A.J.P. Taylor
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
— William Henry Harrison
Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame.
— Elizabeth Gilbert