Quotes about Corrupt

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed. Votes: 4

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. Votes: 4

Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn't the young who corrupt the old, rather it's the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible. Votes: 4

Corruption hates what is not corrupt. Votes: 3

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants. Votes: 3

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. Votes: 3

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. Votes: 3

The Corrupt should be tied to a rock & thrown into the sea Votes: 3

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. Votes: 3

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them. Votes: 3

Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. Votes: 3

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good. Votes: 3

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Votes: 2

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Votes: 2

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Votes: 2

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. Votes: 2

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. Votes: 2

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Votes: 2

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. Votes: 2

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Votes: 2

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. Votes: 2

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Votes: 2

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it. Votes: 2

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. Votes: 2

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. Votes: 2

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. Votes: 2

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. Votes: 2

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. Votes: 2

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt. Votes: 2

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman. Votes: 2

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Votes: 2

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Votes: 2

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. Votes: 2

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. Votes: 2

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' Votes: 2

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. Votes: 2

Entitlement and privelege corrupt. Votes: 0

I'm only a poor corrupt official. Votes: 0

All things can corrupt perverse minds. Votes: 0

Every government is always growing corrupt. Votes: 0

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. Votes: 0

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics. Votes: 0

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt. Votes: 0

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. Votes: 0

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt. Votes: 0

The whole f**king system is corrupt. Votes: 0

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. Votes: 0

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. Votes: 0

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character. Votes: 0

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity. Votes: 0

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. Votes: 0

Big government is the most corrupt industry in America. Votes: 0

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network. Votes: 0

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Votes: 0

The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt. Votes: 0

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists. Votes: 0

Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart. Votes: 0

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. Votes: 0

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other. Votes: 0

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid. Votes: 0

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech. Votes: 0

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me. Votes: 0

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system. Votes: 0

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. Votes: 0

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Votes: 0

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt Votes: 0

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt? Votes: 0

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. Votes: 0

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. Votes: 0

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action. Votes: 0

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. Votes: 0

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Votes: 0

Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt. Votes: 0

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is. Votes: 0

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. Votes: 0

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. Votes: 0

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. Votes: 0

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. Votes: 0

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. Votes: 0

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. Votes: 0

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy. Votes: 0

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan. Votes: 0

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington. Votes: 0

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness. Votes: 0

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. Votes: 0

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement. Votes: 0

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. Votes: 0

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? Votes: 0

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place. Votes: 0

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. Votes: 0

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. Votes: 0

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Votes: 0

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system. Votes: 0

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul. Votes: 0

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. Votes: 0

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. Votes: 0

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. Votes: 0

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. Votes: 0

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. Votes: 0

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers. Votes: 0

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. Votes: 0

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. Votes: 0

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. Votes: 0

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. Votes: 0

[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt. Votes: 0

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree. Votes: 0

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. Votes: 0

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. Votes: 0

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco) Votes: 0

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. Votes: 0

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. Votes: 0

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts. Votes: 0

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Votes: 0

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. Votes: 0

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. Votes: 0

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. Votes: 0

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something. Votes: 0

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly. Votes: 0

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. Votes: 0

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt. Votes: 0

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt. Votes: 0

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge. Votes: 0

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything. Votes: 0

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions Votes: 0

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years. Votes: 0

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party." Votes: 0

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. Votes: 0

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! Votes: 0

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. Votes: 0

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs. Votes: 0

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. Votes: 0

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing. Votes: 0

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. Votes: 0

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands. Votes: 0

Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. Votes: 0

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. Votes: 0

America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way. Votes: 0

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. Votes: 0

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. Votes: 0

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. Votes: 0

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism. Votes: 0

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. Votes: 0

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States. Votes: 0

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges. Votes: 0

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. Votes: 0

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber. Votes: 0

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Votes: 0

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. Votes: 0

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Votes: 0

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. Votes: 0

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth. Votes: 0

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. Votes: 0

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature. Votes: 0

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them. Votes: 0

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. Votes: 0

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. Votes: 0

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt. Votes: 0

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals. Votes: 0

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy. Votes: 0

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel. Votes: 0

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. Votes: 0

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs. Votes: 0

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Votes: 0

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. Votes: 0

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. Votes: 0

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. Votes: 0

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. Votes: 0

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism Votes: 0

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. Votes: 0

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government. Votes: 0

To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. Votes: 0

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have... Votes: 0

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. Votes: 0

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so. Votes: 0

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington? Votes: 0

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul Votes: 0

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think... Votes: 0

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy. Votes: 0

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man... Votes: 0

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position... Votes: 0

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. Votes: 0

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people Votes: 0

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Votes: 0

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Votes: 0

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt Votes: 0

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother. Votes: 0

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. Votes: 0

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt. Votes: 0

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. Votes: 0

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature. Votes: 0

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good. Votes: 0

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel. Votes: 0

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. Votes: 0

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible Votes: 0

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt. Votes: 0

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt. Votes: 0

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt. Votes: 0

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. Votes: 0

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. Votes: 0

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. Votes: 0

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them. Votes: 0

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt. Votes: 0

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. Votes: 0

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive. Votes: 0

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action. Votes: 0

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. Votes: 0

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome. Votes: 0

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton has jeopardized. Totally jeopardized national security by putting her e-mails on a private server, all to hide her corrupt dealings. Votes: 0

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. Votes: 0

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. Votes: 0

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon. Votes: 0

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort. Votes: 0

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented. Votes: 0

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate. Votes: 0

The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs. Votes: 0

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000 Year Leap Votes: 0

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture. Votes: 0

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well. Votes: 0

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. Votes: 0

During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners. Votes: 0

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt. Votes: 0

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority. Votes: 0

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us. Votes: 0

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. Votes: 0

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Votes: 0

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. Votes: 0

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently. Votes: 0

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Votes: 0

If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced. Votes: 0

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority. Votes: 0

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless. Votes: 0

Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve. Votes: 0

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians. Votes: 0

Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve. Votes: 0

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. Votes: 0

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. Votes: 0

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life. Votes: 0

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. Votes: 0

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism. Votes: 0

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak. Votes: 0

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. Votes: 0

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt. Votes: 0

Ya called Fargo yet?""No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Listen, Bernie Sanders talks about how Washington is corrupt, both parties are in bed with the lobbyists and special interests. I think he's exactly right. Votes: 0

There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing. Votes: 0

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. Votes: 0

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill. Votes: 0

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war. Votes: 0

Ya called Fargo yet?" "No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt. Votes: 0

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken. Votes: 0

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. Votes: 0

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim. Votes: 0

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon. Votes: 0

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal. Votes: 0

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible. Votes: 0

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid. Votes: 0

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history. Votes: 0

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom. Votes: 0

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. Votes: 0

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating. Votes: 0

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory. Votes: 0

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path? Votes: 0

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. Votes: 0

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. Votes: 0

O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love! Votes: 0

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. Votes: 0

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power. Votes: 0

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart. Votes: 0

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi. Votes: 0

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government. Votes: 0

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk. Votes: 0

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games. Votes: 0

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him. Votes: 0

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off? Votes: 0

There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it. Votes: 0

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy. Votes: 0

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. Votes: 0

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself? Votes: 0

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. Votes: 0

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. Votes: 0

Donald Trump`s meeting with the president of Mexico comes after months of bashing that country and its political leadership. Trump has called the Mexican government corrupt and dishonest. Votes: 0

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power. Votes: 0

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population. Votes: 0

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....? Votes: 0

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. Votes: 0

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. Votes: 0

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit. Votes: 0

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain. Votes: 0

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt. Votes: 0

Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud Votes: 0

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon) Votes: 0

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about. Votes: 0

We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that. Votes: 0

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries. Votes: 0

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer. Votes: 0

I see now that true love isn't fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have. Votes: 0

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side. Votes: 0

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies. Votes: 0

You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed. Votes: 0

Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. Votes: 0

Instead of attacking people, we need to love people. It lights a fire under me because it's a reminder of why we need the Gospel. Our hearts are so corrupt. Votes: 0

From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers. Votes: 0

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. Votes: 0

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Votes: 0

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does. Votes: 0

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes. Votes: 0

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. Votes: 0

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots. Votes: 0

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us. Votes: 0

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life Votes: 0

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. Votes: 0

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman. Votes: 0

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators. Votes: 0

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one? Votes: 0

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations. Votes: 0

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt. Votes: 0

Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy. Votes: 0

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Votes: 0

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society. Votes: 0

Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt. Votes: 0

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties. Votes: 0

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. Votes: 0

Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy. Votes: 0

Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me. Votes: 0

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. Votes: 0

It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances. Votes: 0

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up Votes: 0

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. Votes: 0

Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. Votes: 0

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people. Votes: 0

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. Votes: 0

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. Votes: 0

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. Votes: 0

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it! Votes: 0

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation. Votes: 0

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall. Votes: 0

A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too. Votes: 0

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered. Votes: 0

You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt. Votes: 0

John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them. Votes: 0

If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit. Votes: 0

We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt. Votes: 0

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job. Votes: 0

You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt. Votes: 0

As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place. Votes: 0

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God! Votes: 0

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. Votes: 0

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition. Votes: 0

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country. Votes: 0

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed. Votes: 0

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record. Votes: 0

The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It's corrupt, and what's going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly. Votes: 0

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge. Votes: 0

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. Votes: 0

I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet. Votes: 0

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. Votes: 0

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. Votes: 0

Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them. Votes: 0

Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard? Votes: 0

We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief... Votes: 0

The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt. Votes: 0

We have a record for Nawaz Sharif but not the others. And judging by the record, it's pretty hard to be optimistic. His [Sharif's] previous governments were very corrupt and regressive in the policies pursued. Votes: 0

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise. Votes: 0

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry. Votes: 0

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good. Votes: 0

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt. Votes: 0

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law. Votes: 0

Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no. Votes: 0