But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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.
Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering – I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse – is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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