Corrupting Quotes
62 quotes by 60 authors
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to…
— P T Barnum
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to…
— Saul Alinsky
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
— James F. Cooper
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent…
— Susan Sontag
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If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't…
— Brad Pitt
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
— Euripides
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The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
— James Madison
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal…
— Jack Nicholson
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
— Francois Mauriac
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They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting…
— Don King
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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them…
— Benjamin Franklin
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
— Samuel Richardson
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is…
— Adyashanti
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Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring…
— Jerry Falwell
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Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it…
— Legs McNeil
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The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...
— Thomas Sowell
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