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Corrupted Quotes (page 11)

I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real. Umberto Eco
Henry Fielding quote: "We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by..."
We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions. Henry Fielding
Charles Spurgeon quote: "All the devils in hell and tempters on earth could do us no..."
All the devils in hell and tempters on earth could do us no injury if there were no corruption in our own natures. Charles Spurgeon
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death. Virginia Woolf
Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society. David McCullough
Oscar Wilde quote: "There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized...."
There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. Oscar Wilde
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menaechmus of talent, has one dupe,--history. Victor Hugo
Tacitus quote: "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. Tacitus
...and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that instead of obeying commands in silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty. Plutarch
The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh. Arthur Miller
Oscar Wilde quote: "Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?"
Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? Oscar Wilde
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."-The 5000 Year Leap Benjamin Franklin
Aristotle quote: "All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much..."
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world Aristotle
Upton Sinclair quote: "One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a..."
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption. Upton Sinclair
You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate. Barack Obama

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