Moral Corruption Quotes

• The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Civilization, Complacency

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• Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Snow, Rolling Along, Balls

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• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  Bess Myerson

  Indifference, Crime, Accomplices

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• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Literature, Might

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• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, People, Needs

  Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.

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• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Would Be

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• Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  New York, July, Knives

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

  William Falconer

  Numbers, Vices, Well Known

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• It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Cynical, Boyhood, Facts

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• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Queens, Powerful

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