Top 331 Corrupted Quotes & Sayings

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Even great men can be corrupted

Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous; and makes this conclusion, 'That where the matter (that is, the body of the people) is not corrupted, tumults and disorders do not hurt; and where it is corrupted, good laws do no good:' which being confirmed by reason and experience, I think no wise man has ever contradicted him.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

In Puerto Rico there is an old adage that goes something like this: 'The thief believes that, like himself, everyone else is also a thief.' I'd like to add that the corrupted person and all of the corrupted journalists all see corruption around them. In their corrupt minds, they have an inability to see any of the good in another person.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

People are generally good but easily corrupted.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

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.

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure

There is no darkness as dark as a great light corrupted.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.