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"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves." »Robert Anton Wilson
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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." »Tacitus
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"Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?" »Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
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"All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil." »Ovid
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it." »John Calhoun
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"Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"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
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"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
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"No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time." »James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
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"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
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Lord Acton, 1887
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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Emerich Edward Dalbert
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"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too." »Oscar Levant
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"When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"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
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"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." »Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
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"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." »Henry Graham Greene
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." »Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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"That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending." »M. Henry
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power." »John Steinbeck
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power." »John Ernst Steinbeck
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"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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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel." »Thomas Paine
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