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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
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And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Politics and the English Language (1946) -
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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