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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke— 1777 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol.
Then let Ausonia, skilled in every art, To soften manners,but corrupt the heart, Pour her exotic follies o'er the town, To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
lord byron— 1809 Engish Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.618-21.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw— 1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Democracy'.
Give me the liberty of the Press, and I will give the Minister a venal House of Peers, I will give him a corrupt and servile House of Commons?armedwiththeliberty of the Press, I will go forth to meet him undismayed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1810 Speech, House of Commons.
Why did my parents send me to the schoolsThat I with knowledge might enrich my mind?Since the desire to know first made men fools,And did corrupt the root of all mankind.
john davies— Stanza 1.
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
frederick douglass— Appendix
"Once again, I challenge the Prime Minister to have an open debate with me on why he believes we must stay part of this failing, corrupt EU. The future of our nation is at stake. Mr Cameron, you have my phone number."
nigel farage— Quote by Nigel Farage on an article written by himself in the Telegraph, 6th July 2012.
— The time will never be right for David Cameron to hold a referendum on the EU.
The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.
khaled mashal— YouTube video March 5, 2008.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
john steinbeck— The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102
I thought fit to leave this testimony to the world, that, as I had from my youth endeavored to uphold the Common rights of mankind, the lawes of this land, and the true Protestant religion, against corrupt principles, arbitrary power and Popery, I doe now willingly lay down my life for the same; and having a sure witness within me, that God doth absolve me, and uphold me, in the utmost extremityes, am very littell sollicitous, though man doth condemne me.
algernon sydney— The Apology of Algernon Sydney, in the Day of his Death (1683), as quoted in Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677-1683 (2002) by Jonathan Scott, p. 337.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.
studs terkel— The Dick Cavett Show (9 June 1978)
To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt and bloody. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
saul alinsky— p. 24–25 (Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971))
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov— A Journey to Sakhalin
There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (January 14, 1887)
John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.
steve jobs— "Statement in The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program oral history" (20 April 1995)
The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
Ken Livingstone— The Daily Telegraph (17 May, 1986)
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
adlai stevenson— Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1952), p. 99.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
Tacitus— Chapter 19. (Germania (98))
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter XI
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.
— John H. Clarke, Valdez v. United States, 244 U.S. 432, 450 (1917).
Father! no prophet's laws I seek, Thy laws in Nature's works appear; I own myself corrupt and weak, Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Prayer of Nature.
Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.
— Robert South, p. 167. (Envy)
Heaven is above all yet, there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, scene 1, line 100.
The old order changeth , yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world .
— Idylls of the King (1856–1885) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
— Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linus (2004-08-26). Message to linux-usb-devel mailing list. Retrieved on 2009-11-27.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
— Chapter 19. (Germania (98))
To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be.
— Henry George, in Social Problems (1883), Ch. 17 : The Functions of Government
