No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.
Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.
I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.
I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.
The majority of immigrants are in search of a better life for their families or are seeking safety by leaving violent and corrupt countries.
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
I have my own demons, but I assure you that they are not about a corrupt mind abusing the trust and confidence that my constituents have placed in me.
Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.
On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
After decades of systematic plundering of state property by corrupt oligarchs, the country needs a collective awakening.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
When I used to fight against the corrupt system, my wife ran the house and my mother supported me.
Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.
For Clinton, I don't see redemption. She is a corrupt political operative of the worst kind.
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.
Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.
The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.
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