Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.

Solitude was corrupting me.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Solitude was corrupting me...My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

— Jack Levine

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is…

— Thomas Jefferson

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when…

— Saul Alinsky

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

— Derrick Bell

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

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it?…

— Jane Campion

When I say corrupting, I mean taking over and politicizing them for the express purpose of advancing the leftist agenda. And the advancement of…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.”

— Sue Grafton

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

— George Orwell

“absolute power is corrupting”

— Richard Wright

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

— Antony Beevor

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

— Daniel Ellsberg

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

— Daniel Schorr