Corrupting Quotes

62 Corrupting quotes by 59 unique authors

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to… — Peter Singer
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. — Holbrook Jackson
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your… — Orson Scott Card
Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn… — Kay Ryan
I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this… — Audrey Niffenegger
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that… — Stephen Fry
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization… — Kurt Vonnegut
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick Bell
He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being… — Ernest Hemingway
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against… — George Orwell
Solitude was corrupting me. — Vladimir Nabokov
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. — A J P Taylor
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism. — Jack Levine
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way. — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Power is always a corrupting influence. — Charles Dance
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate… — James L. Buckley
I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Pornography occurs in the mind. Once porn is downloaded into our mental hard drive through the portals of the senses, it works like a computer… — Unknown Author
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may… — Unknown Author

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