Corrupts Quotes

122 Corrupts quotes by 93 unique authors

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me — Malcolm Muggeridge
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such… — Frank Herbert
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back. — D. A. Carson
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. — D. A. Carson
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. — Arthur Koestler
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. — Will Durant
The Left corrupts everything it touches — Dennis Prager
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Every uniform corrupts one's character. — Max Frisch
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts… — Eric Hoffer
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys… — Lord Acton
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a… — Charles Peguy
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. — Joshua Reynolds
Money corrupts the process of reasoning. — Lawrence Lessig
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also… — Bayard Rustin
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature,… — Jesse Ventura
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. — Matthew Parris
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. — Joseph Joubert
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. — Paul Fussell
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts. — Paul Ryan
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall. — Selima Hill

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