Quotes of: Corrupted Keyword

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Michele Bachmann

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

Kelly Preston

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

Laura Fraser

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Loretta Lynch

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Ajay Devgan

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Bruce Kent

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

Alexei Navalny

What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a ...

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an i...

Archer's Goon

Who is to blame? The filth peddler, of course, but even more than this vulgar entertainer, the filth consumer, the public. So long as men are corrupt and revel in sewer filth, entertainers will sell them what they want. Laws may be passed, arrests ma...

The Miracle of Forgiveness

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of i...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a m...

George Spencer-Brown

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Believers: A novella and stories

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Andre Bazin

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

Holy Bible: King James Version

This world is too comfort to be changed. This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.

Shades of Midnight

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.

Munia Khan

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz