Quotes about Corruption

I want ordinary corrupt human love

History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.

WIDESPREAD EVIL ALWAYS HAS ITS ROOTS IN WIDESPREAD DECEPTION

that corrupted version is presented as something improved or enhanced — when, in fact, it is a "perverted" adaptation of what was originally intended.

Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who, pretending loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

He opposed the militaristic nationalism of the new Germany, rooted in "blood and soil," even as the German Evangelical Church and most of its leaders succumbed to the new ideology. By the early period of the war, the embrace of Nazi ideology at all levels of society had led to the complete corruption of social and personal ethical behavior among most Germans.