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Quotes about Corruption

Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony, and corruption within the church.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The world is full of poetry; it is sin which turns it into prose.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption hath taken hold on thee? Doth it then also void excrements? Doth it like either oxen, or sheep, graze or feed; that it also should be mortal, as well as the body?
- Marcus Aurelius
Now say I, if so be that this be both hurtful unto them, and yet unavoidable, would not, thinkest thou, the whole itself be in a sweet case, all the parts of it being subject to alteration, yea and by their making itself fitted for corruption, as consisting of things different and contrary
- Marcus Aurelius
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
- Thomas Cranmer
Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.
- John Hagee
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
- John Henry Newman
The total depravity of human nature does not mean that it actually breaks forth into open acts of all kinds of evil in any one man.
- AW Pink
All by nature are essentially evil, nothing but "flesh"; everything in us is contrary to holiness.
- AW Pink
Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.
- AW Pink
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
I was Satan's right hand man.
- Nigel Benn