Corrupted Quotes

178 quotes by 161 authors

Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive,… — Charles Kimball
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the… — Samuel Johnson
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! — Philip Massinger
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule… — Orson Welles
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism and… — Vladimir Lenin
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what… — Marcus Aurelius
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted… — Henry Louis Gates
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. — Henry Fielding
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by… — Dean Koontz
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. — Bob Marley
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic… — Jerry Saltz
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the… — Julian Baggini
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness… — Felix Dennis
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,… — Douglas Rushkoff
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of… — Steve Almond
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his… — Wilfred Owen

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