Age Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are…

— Robert Payne

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility:…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people…

— Bernard Hopkins

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

“To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt…

— Saul Alinsky

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national…

— Joe Biden

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

— John Knox

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age…

— John Mortimer