Quotes About Corruption

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

Der moderne Mensch versucht mit der Unzucht, der Gewalt und der Niederträchtigkeit die Unschuld eines höllischen Paradieses zu schaffen.

Modern souls do not even become corrupted; they become rusty.

Thinking corrupts the imbecile.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.

Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne.

L'homme, dans l'état actuel de la société, me paraît plus corrompu par sa raison que par ses passions. Ses passions (j'entendes ici celles qui appartiennent à l'homme primitif) ont conservé, dans l'ordre social, le peu de nature qu'on y retrouve encore.

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files.

Indeed, pity never possesses us so strongly as at the sight of beauty touched by the corrupting breath of depravity. Let ugliness make friends with it, but beauty, tender beauty … in our thoughts it is united only with chastity and purity.

Jamais la pitié ne s'empare aussi fortement de nous qu'au spectacle de la beauté atteinte par le souffle délétère de la débauche.

In effetti la pietà non ci assale mai così violentemente come alla vista della bellezza toccata dal soffio corruttore del vizio. Ancora ancora gli si accompagnasse la deformità, la bellezza, la tenera bellezza... nei nostri pensieri si unisce soltanto all'innocenza e alla purezza.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected but from the corruption of everyday objects, spaces. To take a thing we see every day a thing we take for granted as normal, a child's bedroom and transform it into something sinister untrustworthy is to undermine the very fabric of life.

These aren't mistakes," says the Prophet. "This isn't Oh, I must have heard God wrong. This is opportunism. This is twisting His will to corrupt ends. Because people are corrupt. Adults.

But it's about adults. The corruption of adults. This delusion that they can get whatever they want for free. That they can lie needlessly, promise anything, and then cheat the consequences. This is the delusion of power. The belief that power erases the need for honesty. That power in and of itself is a fact that supersedes all other facts. And what is the price they pay, our elders for stiffing the Piper? Their future. Because what is the future, if not children?

says to me are upsetting. Extinction. This is what we talk of most. What happens to a species when you destroy its natural habitat, when you corrupt its essential nature and purpose—when you take its biological instincts and mandates and use

True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from the corruption of everyday objects, spaces.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

I will focus on how the institution is organized, and how that structure—anachronistic, paramilitary, rigidly bureaucratic—produces a workplace culture that serves as a breeding ground for racism, corruption, sexual predation, brutality, unjustified lethal force, and excessive militarism.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.