Corruption Quotes

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It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to… — Joe Paterno
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious… — John Calvin
Let our hearts admit, â€œI am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.… — John Owen
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify… — William Gurnall
There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human… — J C Ryle
The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming… — Tom Udall
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of… — Morris West
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in… — N. T. Wright
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor â€“ even President, it seemed. And… — Bill Hicks
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the… — Simon Mawer
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a… — Lynn Hill
I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am… — King James I
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in… — Leonard Ravenhill
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China… — Chen-Ning Yang
And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the… — Sibel Edmonds
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not… — Bill Watterson
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. — Wally Lamb

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