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The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
Corrode, v.
I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.
There is a crack in everything
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse
either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
something important is broken
But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
The rottenness comes from within.
Politics, it's all corrupt!
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold...
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
Everything good needs replacing
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
this word needs to be reworded ==========
It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
I embrace my own festering diseased corruption,
Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.
The corruption of the best is the worst ...
a gradual leaking away of all conviction
You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption.
Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
I'm falling into disrepair
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted
or rather tend to be corrupted
by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
Things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay.
Purity without balance is its own corruption.
In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
Change, the uninvited guest that destroys what once was.
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
The profession to which we belong, once venerated ... -has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position ...
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
Blessed are they that crumble; from them new worlds are made.
Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis.
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision
and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness,
more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort.
An Augean stable of metallic filth.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
Illusions are bound to be shattered
Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ...
Has anyone been corrupted or defiled?"
"Since the age of twelve," West said.
"I wasn't asking you, I was asking the girls."
"Not yet," Cassandra replied cheerfully.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.
In some nations day broke after a long night, but it is clouded with chaos and corruption.
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.
I think it's very easy to get corrupted.
With destruction comes renovation.
It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.
Shit and piss and trash were thrown from windows to the distant street until rain came to wash them away, and like plants in rich soil, the unstable, unreliable buildings rose, driven by the deep human desire to be the one least shat upon.
Of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in
the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.
Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed ...
Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
The effect of corruption I find most underacknowledged is a contraction not of economic possibility but of our moral universe.
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.
Corruption in any institution can only take hold, if organised elements within it act on delusional beliefs that do not benefit the whole.
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
Broken aqueducts, left in the most picturesque and beautiful clusters of arches; broken temples; broken tombs. A desert of decay, sombre and desolate beyond all expression; and with a history in every stone that strews the ground.
The perfection of rottenness.
There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
Faults are soon copied.
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears.
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.