Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil Gibran

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
James Bryant Conant

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Studs Terkel

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
Charles Edward Merriam

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David Ogilvy

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
Zhu Rongji

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
Ginger Baker

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
Richard Needham

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
David Hackworth

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
John Ralston Saul

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
Laura Miller