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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. -- David Garrick
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine. -- Rufus Wainwright
I think it's very easy to get corrupted. -- Steve Chabot
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. -- Bob Marley
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. -- Henry Fielding
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. -- Algernon Sidney
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. -- Andrew Jackson
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. -- Ovid
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. -- Richard Whately
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. -- Vitruvius
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values. -- Jerry Saltz
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. -- Dean Koontz
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business! -- Roger Corman
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate. -- Bob Barr
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. -- Felix Dennis
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. -- Tom Stoppard
I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system. -- Lapo Elkann
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. -- Robert Emmet
When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place. -- Jeff Lemire
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed. -- Philip Zimbardo
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. -- Virchand Gandhi
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them. -- Morgan Fairchild
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. -- Julian Baggini
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. -- Henry Louis Gates
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families. -- Ellen G. White
Snob corrupted. -- Toba Beta
Even great men can be corrupted -- J. Edgar Hoover
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity. -- Joseph Joubert
People are generally good but easily corrupted. -- Vanya Asher
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. -- John Adams
We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.] -- Tacitus
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. -- Seneca the Younger
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood... -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now. -- Bill Gates
Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. -- T. S. Eliot
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. -- Henry David Thoreau
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles. -- Terence McKenna
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. -- Clive James
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived... -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. -- John Lyly
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders. -- George Hamilton
There is no darkness as dark as a great light corrupted. -- Lauren Kate
Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. -- Ellen Hopkins
It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred. -- David Brooks
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. -- Kim Stanley
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! -- Philip Massinger
I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. -- Mara Wilson
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . -- Algernon Sidney
Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted. -- Gillian Shields
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world. -- J. M. Coetzee
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! -- Moliere
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. -- William Shakespeare
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. -- Philip Wylie
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. -- Eugene McCarthy
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" -- John Owen
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. -- George Orwell
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. -- Albert Einstein
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted. -- Francois Rabelais
Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. -- Manis Friedman
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion. -- George Gillespie
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind. -- Glenn Beck
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted -- Thomas Cranmer
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! -- Joan of Arc
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system. -- Shepard Fairey
Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. -- Shulamith Firestone
When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness. -- Kazuya Minekura
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. -- Walker Percy
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed. -- Laura Fraser
Bitcoin is not â??unregulatedâ?. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. -- Andreas Antonopoulos
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. -- Patrick Henry
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. -- Arianna Huffington
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry. -- Susan Sontag
My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil. -- Munia Khan
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany. -- Benjamin Carson
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. -- Richard Powers
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. -- Tacitus
Education is inherently socially inclusive; any failure of inclusion signals the presence of power. An exclusive education is a corrupted education. -- Raewyn Connell
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. -- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. -- Walter Lippmann
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it. -- Esther Dyson
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. -- David Graeber
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -- William Shakespeare
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves. -- James Redfield
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little. -- Aristotle
Maybe the Clinton chapter is over now. They've brought enough disgrace to America, the presidency, and the state department. They corrupted the Justice Department. -- Rudy Giuliani
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. -- Emile M. Cioran
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority. -- Horace
I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army. -- Petra Kelly
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. -- Vitruvius
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect. -- George Carlin
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness. -- Steve Almond
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love... -- Henry Taylor
In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison. -- Preston Sturges
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. -- David Halberstam
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book. -- Irving Kristol
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration. -- Alexander Hamilton
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods. -- Thomas Otway
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated. -- Michel de Montaigne
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. -- Edward Gibbon
Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty. -- John Adams
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself! -- Gretchen Rubin
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. -- Kate Elliott

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