Corrupt Quotes

489 quotes by 399 authors

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way… — Malcolm X
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson
I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about… — Charles Barkley
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This… — Barry McCaffrey
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there… — Thomas Jefferson
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their… — Barry Goldwater
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the… — Noah Webster
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of… — Thomas Paine
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of… — Strom Thurmond
The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good… — Thomas Brooks
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt. — Dimitris Mitropoulos
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom… — John Pugsley
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the… — Florence Nightingale
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband. — William Shakespeare

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