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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. -- Edward Norton
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. -- Eugenio Montale
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. -- Ralph Steadman
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it. -- Gary Hamel
Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten. -- Roberto Cavalli
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable. -- James P. Hoffa
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. -- Denise Mina
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. -- E. O. Wilson
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. -- Liu Xiaobo
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist. -- Caitlin Flanagan
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. -- Steve Jobs
I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites. -- Hugh Laurie
It's such a corrosive chemical: fame. -- Gertrude Berg
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. -- Charlton Heston
The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity. -- Samuel Wilson
Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century. -- James Victore
Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics. -- Trent Lott
Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat. -- Rob Thurman
Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man. -- James Cook
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. -- Steven Weinberg
I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive. -- Robert Charles Wilson
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. -- Brandi Carlile
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. -- Charles Stross
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive. -- Michael Hastings
Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis. -- Charles Bernhard Heyd
I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth. -- Sylvia Plath
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. -- Ellen Willis
Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". -- David L. Cohn
To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good. -- Desmond Tutu
The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. -- Steve Jobs
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. -- Caroline Knapp
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. -- Philip Pullman
...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin. -- Marcel Proust
Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness. -- Caroline Kettlewell
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing. -- Steven Weinberg
Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was. -- Alexander McCall Smith
When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host. -- Susan L. Taylor

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