Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I'm a middle age white guy, which means I'm constantly reminded that my particular group is responsible for the oppression of every known minority PLUS most wars PLUS government corruption PLUS pollution of the environment, not to mention that it was middle-age white guys who killed Bambi's mom.[Dave Barry] Quote:Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.[Edmund Burke] Quote:It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I've occasionally heard that I was kicked out of Harvard for being a Communist, for dealing drugs, for corrupting minors, or for diverse other infractions of local decorum. Unfortunately, none of these rumors are true. The one I've heard more often is that I am dead. That one I encouraged, hoping it would cut down on the junk mail. It didn't.[Tom Lehrer] Quote:But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.[Albert Einstein] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. [Robert Anton Wilson] Definitions of: corruptDefinition: Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.Definition: Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. Definition: Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt. Definition: To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Definition: To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness. |
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