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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
— William Shakespeare
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
— Samuel Johnson
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
— D. A. Carson
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Our profession is dreadful, writing corrupts the soul.
— Leo Tolstoy
All horsepower corrupts.
— Patrick Leigh Fermor
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
— Nelson Rodrigues
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
— Chinua Achebe
To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.
— Michel De Montaigne
The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world.
— Alfred Tennyson
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
— Benjamin Banneker
Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches ...
— Charles Stross
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
— Will Durant
Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.
— Apostolos Doxiadis
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
— Niklaus Wirth
Dissolute conduct corrupts good character.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The political lie is ever present. It corrupts those who lie and those who believe the lie.
— Arthur D. Robbins
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
— John F. Lehman Jr.
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
— Russ Feingold
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
— Lachlan Murdoch
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
— Terence
Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.
— Silvia Hartmann
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
— Lawrence Lessig
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
— Arthur Koestler
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
— Clint Eastwood
All power corrupts but some must govern.
— John Le Carre
Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.
— Henry Van De Velde
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
— Lawrence Durrell
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
— Immanuel Kant
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
— Margaret Halsey
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
— Matthew Parris
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
— Daniel Schorr
Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
— Paul Fussell
Bad company corrupts good character.
— Menander
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
— P.D. James
All power corrupts, but we need electricity
— Diana Wynne Jones
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.
— Robert L. Bradley Jr.
Arrogance corrupts.
— Toba Beta
In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
— Antisthenes
Power corrupts the best of men.Power destroys the worst of men.
Corrupt nations end up in turmoil.
Corrupt rulers end up in Hell. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.
— Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
— Eric Hoffer
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
— Malcolm Muggeridge
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
unchecked power corrupts.
— Edward Gibbon
She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
— Chris Hedges
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutelyfrom Steelheart (Reckoners #1)
by Brandon Sanderson — Brandon Sanderson
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
— Francis Bacon
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
— Joshua Reynolds
The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.
— Harry S. Truman
Nothing corrupts like happiness. It makes us think that since we share this moment, we can also share the past.
— Peter Hoeg
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
— Edmund Burke
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
— Barbara Tuchman
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
— Francois Fenelon
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
— Edgar Friedenberg
Money corrupts the process of reasoning.
— Lawrence Lessig
For time corrupts even the most innocent
— Laura Thalassa
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges
It may be that hope misleads. But hate - hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
— H.G.Wells
It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.
— Norman Spinrad
The Left corrupts everything it touches
— Dennis Prager
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
— William Pitt
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
— Eleanor Roosevelt