Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

— Clive James

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

— Francois Rabelais

“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to…

— Steven Magee

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin,…

— John Denham

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

— William S. Burroughs

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.”

— Kai Erikson

“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.”

— Asti Hustvedt

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

— Mary Daly

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

— Charles M. Blow

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

— Anonymous

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

— Iain Banks

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.

— Ilona Andrews

“Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the…

— Shuli Barzilai