Corrupted Quotes
178 quotes by 161 authors
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There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
— Patrick Henry
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When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
— Ovid
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In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem…
— Bob Barr
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Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
— Walter Lippmann
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Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a…
— Pope Clement XIII
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion,…
— Aristotle
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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are…
— Saint Augustine
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Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I…
— Hugh Hefner
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Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift…
— King James I
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at…
— Kate Elliott
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that…
— Eugene Delacroix
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I think it's very easy to get corrupted.
— Steve Chabot
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The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Bitcoin is not “unregulatedâ€. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.
— Andreas Antonopoulos
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
— Joan of Arc
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