Corrupt Quotes

489 quotes by 390 authors

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's… — Robert Caro
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. — Stefan Zweig
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. — Ed Markey
Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity. — Mark Dever
They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something. — Freddie Mercury
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the… — Charles Baudelaire
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,… — Lord Acton
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. — John C. Calhoun
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. — Ted Nugent
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and… — Sarah Bernhardt
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used… — Azar Nafisi
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce… — Pope Pius IX
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest… — Hall Caine
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or… — Ninon de L'Enclos
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics… — Ralph Raico
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck… — Alec Baldwin
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. — Charles W. Pickering
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and… — Wayne LaPierre
You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that… — Richey Edwards

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