| "Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves." »Robert Anton Wilson |
| "All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil." »Ovid |
| "Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it." »John Calhoun |
| "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "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." »Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too." »Oscar Levant |
| "Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." »Henry Graham Greene |
| "When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power." »John Ernst Steinbeck |
| "Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked." »William Shakespeare |
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