Quotes about Corruption

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.

It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.