Quotes About Being Corrupted

#1. I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

Lapo Elkann

#2. A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

W. H. Auden

#3. I don't like good kids being corrupted by bad ones, Santa never does".

The Santa Killer

Stuart Francis

#4. the Essenes sought to keep Moses' laws from being corrupted by foreign influences.

Bill Thompson

#5. Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation:
youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#6. You are corrupting me, Theo." "But you like being corrupted, don't you, sweet girl?

Juliette Banks

#7. Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Anonymous

#8. Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

Stanley Nelson Jr.

#9. A marriage only works if one opens to exactly that which one would never ask for otherwise. Only through rubbing oneself sore and losing oneself is one able to learn about oneself, God, and the world. Like every soteriological pathway, that of marriage is hard and painful.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#10. Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

David Hume

#13. Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.

Harry Johnson

#14. Everything that the Bible identifies as sin and our nature recognizes as such is something essentially good gone wrong. More precisely, it is something God has made that we have corrupted. Augustine defined the essence of sin as being curved in on ourselves

Michael S. Horton

#15. The situation as well as them and had shifted her loyalties to the most likely survivors with the business-like efficiency of a bank teller making change.

Anonymous

#16. Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever - you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her.

Claudia Rankine

#17. How easily Neverland is corrupted into the deserted island of Lord of the Flies. How quickly Tinkerbell regresses to being one of the flies pestering the gouged eye sockets of the pig that the lost boys butcher.

Gregory Maguire

#18. Bitcoin is not "unregulated". It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

Andreas Antonopoulos

#19. Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

King James I

#20. On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Denis Villeneuve