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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky

Life, Politics, Time

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison

Nature, Power, Nothing

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson

Ambition, Likelihood

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
Peter Singer

Life, Politics, Money

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
Caroline Kennedy

Politics, Money, Pretty

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.
Jane Campion

Money, Important, Career

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A. J. P. Taylor

Life, Peace, Nothing

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
Daniel Ellsberg

Wait, Empire, Monarchy

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.
Laurell K. Hamilton

School, Writing, College

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley

Made, Rather, Himself

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
Jack Levine

Here, Communism, Toward

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