#corrupted

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

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

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

— Henry Fielding

#companions #corrupted #liable

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

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. ↗

— John Lyly

#dunghill #sun #upon

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#mind #speech #whenever

I think it's very easy to get corrupted. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#easy #get #i #i think #think

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#corrupted #destroyed #goodness #love #power

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

— Algernon Sidney

#corrupted #liberty #manners #people #preserved