Corrupt Quotes
489 quotes by 390 authors
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More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.…
— Jerry Saltz
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The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the…
— Babatunde Olatunji
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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
— Laozi
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Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
— John Milton
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break…
— Pete Seeger
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...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the…
— Pope Clement XIII
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Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather…
— Pope Pius XII
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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the…
— Confucius
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
— James F. Cooper
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must…
— Terence Rattigan
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Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
— William Gaddis
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having…
— George McGovern
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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
— James Stockdale
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Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness…
— Eric Gill
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All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a…
— John F. Kennedy
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Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending…
— Rowan Williams
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