#corrupted

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

#avoid #corrupted #danger #exchange #follow

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ↗

— David Garrick

#freemen #slaves #worst

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#mind #speech #whenever

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business! ↗

— Roger Corman

#art #art form #artform #business #century

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

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

#corrupted #debate #get #goal #goals

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

— Ovid

#corrupted #how #moves #sloth #sluggish

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

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult