Quotes about Corruption

Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony, and corruption within the church.

The world is full of poetry; it is sin which turns it into prose.

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?

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

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

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.

All by nature are essentially evil, nothing but "flesh"; everything in us is contrary to holiness.

Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

I was Satan's right hand man.