In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
I think it's very easy to get corrupted.
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power. . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe. . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.
We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
People are generally good but easily corrupted.
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.
People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme Court as the final word on abortion or immigration or what have you. It's not what it's for. It's never intended to be such. It's just another institution that has been corrupted and it's facing total corruption depending on the outcome of this election.
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
The Democrats have so corrupted our understanding of economics and productivity that lowering tax rates is now considered to be some kind of sop to the rich. I mean, it's just profound to me, the damage inflicted on this country by the Democrats in their pursuit of perpetual power.
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure