Corrupted Quotes

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, Speech, Whenever

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

Fear, May, Cannot

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

Power, Goal, Public

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Love, Power, Goodness

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

Great, Justice, Racism

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid

Body, Water, Unless

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

Work, Sick, Almost

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

Books, Companions, Liable

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

Liberty, Cannot, Manners

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

Another, Order, Follow

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

Real, Problem, Another

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

Writing, Eyes, Makes

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.
Marcus V. Pollio

Lose, Balance, Water

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.
Cliff Stearns

Family, Computers, Children

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
George Gillespie

Life, Religion, Others

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
David Garrick

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

Power, Minds, Lives

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.
Kevin Kline

True, Themselves, President

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.
Steve Chabot

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

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

Religion, Great, Making

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

Art, Business, Fact

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