Jerrod Carmichael

If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.

American Actor

Jeff Lemire

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Canadian Artist

RJ Mitte

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

Saul Alinsky

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

American Activist

Jacques Chirac

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

French Statesman

John Adams

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

American President

Kendrick Sampson

I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.

Ginger Baker

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

British Musician

Charles Dance

English Actor

Menander

Greek Poet

Often relates to abuse of power by leaders or institutions.

Power Abuses

Frequently used in legal and political contexts where law and order are central.

Legal Context

Carries a strong negative emotional weight, describing despicable actions or people.

Negative Emotion

Emphasizes a decline in personal ethics or morals.

Personal Morality

Suggests a process or influence that changes one's morals over time.

Process of Change

In computing, it indicates errors or issues preventing normal operation.

Technical Failure

Relates to the accuracy and consistency of data in computing.

Data Integrity

Speaks to the loss of quality, purity, or originality in various contexts.

Degradation of Quality

Used when something good is turned into a worse form.

Negative Transformation

 Others can affect entire nations, such as cycles of corrupt government or climate change. But the cruel irony of welfare traps in particular is that they stem from the very policies designed to battle poverty. Most societies throughout history employed some strategies to help people in poverty meet basic needs.

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 You have to make the change on yourself. Because the only way to change consciousness and to change the world around us, is to start with yourself. It's so easy to criticize how it's different, the things in the world and they're not right, and the governments are corrupted and there's hunger in the world

An Art Made of Trust,...

 but due to corrupt bureaucracy, barely any of these funds reached survivors or their families. Neither Trujillo nor anyone in his government was ever punished for this crime against humanity. The legacy of the massacre remains a source of tension between the two countries.

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 folks it's not something in the water it's not that people got mean it's not the attack ads it's not the money it's not the news these things all have something to do with it sure and they all feed into it the viciousness of the news cycle and the corrupting influence

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 picking up on many of the same themes. In many ways, the novel follows a common narrative thread where a promising youth is seduced and corrupted by the dangers of urban life. But its social critique cuts far deeper. Raskolnikov rationalizes that his own advancement

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 situations may no doubt deserve to be preferred to others but none of them can be desert none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice or to corrupt the

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 struggle in which servants rebel against the corrupt masters sexual advances yeah it's a hot house effect and and that's why it's extremely rare to see genius just come out of nowhere you know it's just like all of a sudden

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 And many of you, I'm sure, have thought about that and puzzled over it. You've seen people take beneficial technological advances, such as the Internet we've heard about tonight, and twist them into something corrupting.

Billy Graham:...

 The burial was complete, but the taboo of death weighed heavily on the scholar. How could he have been so foolish, to shirk his most important rule and corrupt his divine journey? After a tormented night,

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 with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly,

Corrupt

Dishonest or illegal behavior, especially people in power.

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To make someone or something become dishonest or immoral.

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Changed or damaged so it is not working properly or is no longer pure.

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To damage or destroy the original state or quality of something.

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