Affection Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

— Jonathan Swift

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

— George Orwell

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and…

— George Orwell

“Corruption is just a rude word for the autumn of a people.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The permutations of English corruption in India were endless”

— Paul Scott

“The root of corruption is lack of contentment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“the presence of the Word with them shielded them even from natural corruption,”

— Athanasius of Alexandria

“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

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning…

— Deena Metzger

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

— George Bernard Shaw