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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. -- Noah Webster
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? -- Thomas Hooker
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. -- Jonathan Swift
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. -- Charles Baxter
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. -- Lewis Mumford
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. -- Thomas Jefferson
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. -- William Falconer
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions. -- Graydon Carter
I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way. -- Bahman Ghobadi
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions. -- Joseph Muscat
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath. -- Renata Adler
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. -- Matthew Henry
Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to eradicate all corruptions in this world.Master of Stupidity: Let it be a bit! Otherwise you'll make us jobless for good. -- Toba Beta
A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences. -- Alexander Hamilton
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind. -- Thomas Otway
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it. -- Mary Hesse
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel. -- John Owen
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics. -- Jonathan Swift
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth. -- Petrarch
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. -- David Hume

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