Corrupt Quotes

489 quotes by 390 authors

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
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
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
Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good. — Laozi
Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. — John Milton
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead
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
...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
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
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
Itâ€™s Fitzgeraldâ€™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
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. — James F. Cooper
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
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. — William Gaddis
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
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Entitlement and privelege corrupt. — James Stockdale
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
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
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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