Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.
The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America. . . [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries. . . [in producing] a long habit of submission. . . [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.
Solitude was corrupting me.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence. . . penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.
