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Quotes About Corrupt

I think I just had an evilgasm.
~ Rich Burlew
Monk: Forgive our rudeness Hakkai: Please, don't worry about it. A little purity is good for them. Sanzo: You saying I'm corrupt?
~ Kazuya Minekura
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judgeThat no king can corrupt.
~ William Shakespeare
In law, what plea so tainted and corruptBut, being season'd with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil?
~ William Shakespeare
Police Commit The Worst Criminal Activities Than The Very People They've Locked Up. Biggest Corrupt & Racist Institution.
~ Witness
Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump's apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American man hold affection for the tyrannical, corrupt leader of a hostile power?
~ Masha Gessen
To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.
~ Ann Powers
We are fighting the communal BJP on the one hand and the corrupt Congress on the other.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
~ J.R. Miller
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
~ George Agnew Reid
Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
~ Eric Hoffer
The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.
~ Steven Magee
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.
~ Krystal
Art can elevate and ennoble. It can also degrade and even corrupt. Whatever should be done or not done by way of legal restriction of pornographic art, we ought not to make things easy on ourselves by pretending that art cannot be pornographic or that pornographic art cannot degrade. Nor ought we to avert our gaze from the peculiar insult and injustice involved in the government funding of pornography.
~ Robert P. George
This was the point made by Jon Stewart, the brilliant host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, when he visited CNN's Crossfire: There should be a distinction between news and entertainment. It really matters. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.
~ Al Gore
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.
~ Alain de Botton
In Nora's heart lay the fossil of Robin, intaglio of her identity, and about it for its maintenance ran Nora's blood. Thus the body of Robin could never be unloved, corrupt or put away. Robin was now beyond timely changes, except in the blood that animated her.
~ Djuna Barnes
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The Romans have had their problems," Uncle said. "Men are fallible, and some men are corrupt.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
There is no need to respond to whatever your most powerful and unaccountable political opponent says you have to respond to, particularly on their own corrupt and partisan terms. Treat them as your primary political opposition, because they are.
~ Mollie Hemingway
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I myself, however, could never resist the temptation to read raisin paste for wine in the story of the Miracle of Cana. "When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made raisin paste ... he said unto the bridegroom, 'Every man doth at the beginning doth set forth good raisin paste, and when men have well drunk [eaten? the text is no doubt corrupt], then that which is worse, but thou hast kept the good raisin paste until now.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it. — a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel
~ Jim C. Hines