#corrupt

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

— Ovid

#corrupted #how #moves #sloth #sluggish

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#corruption #full #kinds #world

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #cannot #corruption #established

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

— Algernon Sidney

#corrupted #liberty #manners #people #preserved

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

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

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

#children #computers #continue #corrupted #dangerous

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#forms #greatest #greatest man #man #nation

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corpse #corruption #mask #seduction #squalor

Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil, the green glow of corruption flickers into sight, steadies, and spreads everywhere, fostered by Lorrain's horrified and complicitous gaze. This decadent detective is at one with the criminal he pursues, acknowledging openly that the representation of corruption is one of the most pleasurable forms that corruption can take. In this enterprise, art is the mask that both exposes and conceals culpability. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corruption #crime #criminal #culpability #decadence