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.
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.
There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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.
People are generally good but easily corrupted.
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
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.
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the 25th of December.
It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted. . . . Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.
We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat. , Felicitate corrumpimur. ]
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.
If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.
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.