#corrupted

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. ↗

— Ovid

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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion. ↗

— George Gillespie

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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. ↗

— Richard Whately

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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

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