Quotes About How Money Corrupts

#1. But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter.

Julian Barnes

#2. Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Publilius Syrus

#3. I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

Ann Everett

#4. It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

Nas

#5. I honestly hate wearing makeup.

Kylie Jenner

#6. One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

Morarji Desai

#7. Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Human, witch, goblin, or whatever, a kiss is what is it is created from. Every moment, every heartache, every breath of fear and passion and longing was all wound up in this one kiss. It was more feeling than any word could express.

Cyndi Goodgame

#9. I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

Jef Raskin

#11. I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

David Axelrod

#12. Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

Lawrence Lessig

#13. The thought is full of comfort that He who has established the boundary lines of our lives has also determined the boundaries of our tribulation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Atra esterni' ono thelduin
Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr
Un du evari'nya ono varda
(May good fortune rule over you
peace live in your heart
may the stars watch over you)

Christopher Paolini

#15. PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

Paul Ryan

#16. Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Tom Lehrer

#17. Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Sophocles

#18. Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation's aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

Alexander Pope

#19. Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

Russ Feingold

#20. Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#21. My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Busy Philipps

#22. Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

Margaret Halsey