Corrupt Quotes

489 quotes by 398 authors

The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen Wozniak were pirate boxes and… — Mike Daisey
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature. — Christopher Paolini
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will… — Edward Abbey
Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare,… — Alexander Hamilton
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. — Samuel Johnson
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never… — Leo Tolstoy
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly… — James Patterson
The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and… — Yoweri Museveni
The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its… — Osama bin Laden
There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. â€¦ And having these kinds of things happen,… — John Ensign
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it,… — Bernard of Clairvaux
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt. — Shekhar Kapur
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. — Farhan Akhtar
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. — Walter Lippmann
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his… — Robert L. Reymond
Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly. — Socrates
That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare… — Gene Veith

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