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    1. Why should he be when the nation was so obviously corrupt and the nation was so obviously lead by the Angels? He knew he was being herded toward the afterlife since he was a child


    2. Even children are being corrupt


    3. "We're getting a divorce, she could corrupt this gear


    4. Just one corrupt banana republic marketed by the leaders as this new


    5. 20But lay up for you treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and


    6. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the


    7. 32With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but


    8. "I have it," she said, "It was starting to corrupt the main data store so I think I got it just in time


    9. Then he came – a more corrupt and hellish being even Adros had never seen


    10. You can’t peek above the horizons of your hell, By standing on the shoulders of corrupt giants

    11. corrupt police force (you would have to pick up an


    12. Yet somehow, for some reason, he was seemingly being punished by his corrupt government, or the badly managed economic structure, or the power-mongering banking system, or perhaps even by God himself! Who were the true villains in this nasty, unspeakable situation he had been so unfairly subjected to? Who was to blame! The culprits had to be identified quickly so they could be scolded and punished and then things could be put back the way they were


    13. Are they real y teaching the Bible when they corrupt it into


    14. Caius stopped his corrupt dance and said, “Open your mouth, dragon


    15. The colony assemblies, though, like the house of commons in England, they are not always a very equal representation of the people, yet they approach more nearly to that character ; and as the executive power either has not the means to corrupt them, or, on account of the support which it receives from the mother country, is not under the necessity of doing so, they are, perhaps, in general more influenced by the inclinations of their constituents


    16. But, as the morals of the great body of the people are not yet so corrupt as those of the contrivers of this statute, I have not heard that any advantage has ever been taken of this clause


    17. The civil came to predominate over the military character ; and the standing armies of Rome gradually degenerated into a corrupt, neglected


    18. The persons entrusted with the great interests of the state may even without any corrupt views, sometimes imagine it necessary to sacrifice to those interests the rights of a private man


    19. ‘But surely messing about with my brain would itself corrupt the time line


    20. The former part of this institution, as long as it remained in vigour, seems to have been productive of nothing but disorder and confusion, and to have tended equally to corrupt the morals both of the clergy and of the people

    21. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the insolence, and favours the corruption, of an order of men who are naturally unpopular, even where they are neither insolent nor corrupt


    22. It has for some time past been the policy of Great Britain to discourage the consumption of spiritous liquors, on account of their supposed tendency to ruin the health and to corrupt the morals of the common people


    23. “The taint will corrupt his mind completely!” Terese interjected


    24. " If these works are accurate, Clinton"s administration was, excluding the present administration, far and away the most corrupt in American history


    25. She was a cathartic outlet for their own corrupt pleasures: lust, destruction, hedonism


    26. He had known the system was corrupt but hadn’t been prepared for how corrupt


    27. The most corrupt and ineffective Cabinet Secretary of the Obama Administration, with the possible exception of Attorney General Eric Holder, who really doesn"t understand the laws he has been instructed to enforce, which misunderstanding has much to do, perhaps, with his race getting into the way of his law enforcement responsibilities


    28. His friendly biographer claims that all Abramoff did was refine an already corrupt system!


    29. That was only one of a string of alleged corrupt practices, including handing out jobs and contracts in return for campaign contributions


    30. One, you are too scared or corrupt yourself to stop it and two; you shrug and say "well different standards apply in Africa and it is the way it is

    31. Could you imagine the chaos and lawlessness if they disappeared completely? Who will you then run to in order to complain? Do you seriously think that your lawyers’ letters will help protect you against a criminal? My friend, go a little north in Africa and see what a corrupt police force actually looks like before pointing fingers


    32. As said, political interference took place daily and the Nationalists were also corrupt in this sense


    33. That fearful “Golgotha,” the slaves, and the terrible rites of human sacrifice: there was little room for pity; rather for thankfulness that the corrupt rule had come to an end at last; that Kumassi, henceforth, would not be a place to associate with deeds of cruelty and blood; and that in time, the thousands of Ashanti subjects would gain confidence, emerging from the cloud of a bloody fetish worship, to be taught a measure of self-respect by the presence of the English flag now floating over their head


    34. Historically you supported corrupt government in Africa and still do which sends all kinds of wrong messages


    35. The SAPS is now despised for being incompetent and corrupt


    36. After decades of power they were as corrupt morally and physically as any other African leader whom they pointed their fat fingers at


    37. Africans feel they are only taking our minerals and not giving enough back in infrastructure whilst paying lip service to the masses because they have the (unpopular) corrupt governments bribed


    38. With His wrath poured out upon this wicked, lying and corrupt generation!


    39. Shall I not repay?! Shall I not set all these crooked paths straight?! For the heart of this people is very corrupt! They remain lost in their own deceptions!


    40. For they seek always a way to retain their corrupt riches,

    41. Most other leaders in Suharto's New Order were equally corrupt


    42. Because of this you are unable to catch your target fish and are seen as weak, corrupt and part of the problem


    43. We know that the region is seen as corrupt but still have excellent communication and other facilities


    44. Truman was originally a small town hat maker elevated by one of the most corrupt, ruthless, and violent political machines in US history


    45. Examples would be the US Sarbannes Oxley Act (SOX), US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977, UK Bribery Act 2010, South African Acts like the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities 2004 (PCCA), Prevention of Organised Crime Act of 1998 (POCA), Financial Intelligence Centre Act 2001 (FICA), Protected Disclosures Act of 2000 (PDA), Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002 (FAIS), Consumer Protection Act (CPA) and Counterfeit Goods Act 1999 to name a few


    46. The ineffectiveness of the ―United‖ Nations in brokering ―the peace‖ could be traced to some undefined moment in history when the United States and its European Allies—there was such a time!—abdicated their leadership positions that had become too unwieldy, or perhaps they simply grew weary or complacent or both and decided to observe geo-political events from the sidelines, passing the torch to inept, incipiently corrupt Third World nations lacking the proven capacity to govern by example


    47. Claimed to be intended to bring democracy, the Iraq War led to an extremely corrupt and limited system where torture continued at a higher rate than under Saddam Hussein


    48. The nation had long been notoriously corrupt


    49. Phillipe Bunau Varilla, a corrupt French businessman, played a central role in the scheming for Panamanian independence to get the canal for the US


    50. They also investigate crime unofficially because the local police may be too incompetent or corrupt to do it properly










































    1. “Maybe they believe their own propaganda, that the Kassikan is the great Satan that has corrupted America, then Europe and now Brasil with their enticements


    2. If my diagnostics haven’t been corrupted, and I believe they have not, and I am not encapsulated, the instruments are seeing base reality and not a simulated signal


    3. My time was where that lead, a ruined economy and a culture overrun and corrupted by foreigners


    4. “As First to Queen Naria, I hereby read the charges: For those countless boys that you corrupted; for the many innocents that you stole from, raped, and murdered; for following a man you knew to be mad and doing his bidding; for attempting to kill Lord Tarak; for plotting to murder the Queen and aiding Lord Boras in taking the throne, you are hereby sentenced to death


    5. “You have corrupted your Hold and the people in it


    6. She found that the instance of his phone had been corrupted and was no longer functional


    7. Meanwhile, Justice called upon his human slaves, the corrupted forms of Andrew, Jack, Monica, Julia and Matt


    8. “Yes, yes! Kill them! Kill them all!” The corrupted form of Jack said


    9. He called upon his slaves, the corrupted forms of Andrew, Jack, Monica, Julia and Matt


    10. The five corrupted children rose their hands above their heads and created energy balls of death

    11. “Any last words?” Corrupted Andrew asked with a smirk


    12. The eyes of the Corrupted Children opened very wide, and they began to weep black tears


    13. It had been an hour since Drau'd had finished off the last of LeCynic's corrupted guards


    14. "If so, then this world is far more corrupted than I believed," Solo Ki said


    15. At one point, Adros dared to touch it, hoping that his power to commune with the Graelic would somehow transfer to the corrupted Dead Tree


    16. In spite of his love for Desa, the mores of this planet had corrupted him to the point where he allowed a second girl to share his chamber


    17. Lurking in the maze, he recognized the corrupted forms of the other Chosen who had been captured by the Dead Tree


    18. What would have been a sensuous and voluptuous figure, was not only corrupted by her ghostly white skin, but also by her jet-black veins


    19. Those who say that men have corrupted our world are oblivious of the reality that the whole Universe incorporates the same notion


    20. but as he was all too painfully aware, the Plague corrupted all things, especially hope

    21. have been corrupted by an overdose of thrillers; nothing’s fishy


    22. The Elf brought the conversation back to the present, and posited skeptically; “And this is all somehow a tribute to the coincidence that I am Captain of the Huntress and my name has been corrupted into: the Elf?”


    23. The valour of her soldiers, however, far from being corrupted by that long peace, was never more distinguished than in the attempt upon Carthagena, the first unfortunate exploit of that unfortunate war


    24. In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities


    25. When Christianity was first established by law, a corrupted Latin had become the common language of all the western parts of Europe


    26. The service of the church, accordingly, and the translation of the Bible which were read in churches, were both in that corrupted Latin; that is, in the common language of the country, After the irruption of the barbarous nations who overturned the Roman empire, Latin gradually ceased to be the language of any part of Europe


    27. By far the most important of all the different branches of philosophy became in this manner by far the most corrupted


    28. In some of the richest and best endowed universities, the tutors content themselves with teaching a few unconnected shreds and parcels of this corrupted course ; and even these they commonly teach very negligently and superficially


    29. In modern times, the diligence of public teachers is more or less corrupted by the circumstances which render them more or less independent of their success and reputation in their particular professions


    30. The endowments of schools and colleges have in this manner not only corrupted the diligence of public teachers, but have rendered it almost impossible to have any good private ones

    31. Even a standing army cannot in this case give him any lasting security ; because if the soldiers are not foreigners, which can seldom be the case, but drawn from the great body of the people, which must almost always be the case, they are likely to be soon corrupted by those very doctrines


    32. What matters is that this time line is not corrupted


    33. And besides, it seems you’ve already corrupted the time line


    34. corrupted epistles just as there had been confusion


    35. The officers of excise receive few or no perquisites ; and the administration of that branch of the revenue being of more recent establishment, is in general less corrupted than that of the customs, into which length of time has introduced and authorised many abuses


    36. In those corrupted governments, where there is at least a general suspicion of much unnecessary expense, and great misapplication of the public revenue, the laws which guard it are little


    37. to be corrupted by the deadly trio


    38. Beneath her perfect body was a corrupted soul and a blackened heart


    39. Will you still fight for me if you are so corrupted you become a spirit of evil? Carl asked as he gripped the glowing metal


    40. It seems this entire realm has become corrupted, Jimmy

    41. But programs can be corrupted


    42. The B'tari, with much guidance of the council, believed the time-line had become corrupted


    43. ‘The past for most people, the people under my care, is already corrupted in its meaning


    44. (intellectual) level we are operating at, most of us have the ability to think and to reason clearly and to give proper pause to the consequences of our decisions; unless such processes have been either undermined by mental illness or moral corruption; that is to say, a nature that has either been or corrupted itself


    45. Women, most notably those whose mindsets haven‘t been utterly corrupted by feminist attitudes, possess a maternal instinct that is quite formidable and…


    46. What good is there to say about people who corrupted an honourable political system to Apartheid? Why did that not happen in the other 47 countries that used exactly the same system? What did they do to the SAP who was once an honourable Police Force trusted by all?


    47. He soon discovered that, during his uncertain absence, the people had morally corrupted themselves (of their own volition) by pledging their allegiance to Baal


    48. Empirical studies based on observation or evidence observed by the senses, however, are not, in themselves, immune to faulty impressions whenever the senses (―mind‖) are either inadequately formed, corrupted, diseased or subject to pre-conceived designs that otherwise interfere with the observer‘s ability to render impartial or reasonable judgments


    49. Yet the heart of the mature is corrupted


    50. Where the mind is not completely formed (Primitive) or has corrupted itself (Pride) or has been corrupted (Illness or Disease), however, such models may be found lacking ―significant‖ meaning or purpose or otherwise lose their appeal













































    1. Do you ever feel bad for corrupting that data?" that cherub asked her


    2. How do you think that works? And how do you think you can avoid corrupting it?"


    3. disk or in memory, and the third element was the killer, the harpoon, firing a few small items of trash code into those sectors and corrupting them


    4. And even if he wanted to, the chances of successfully corrupting the monitor program with a virus was minimal, something even the highest rated programmer would struggle to accomplish, given its diagnostic ability


    5. The great thinker of the third age, Almani Zolandric, who has been credited as the primary contributor to the Temporal Directive, had not envisioned such extraordinary events brought about by the corrupting influence of technology


    6. That an individual is (inherently) ―good‖ and that the corruption of (natural) goodness is understood within the context of conventional designs does not follow in the manner that (natural) goodness would never compromise itself inasmuch as it would be contrary to its (nature) to do so; each social unit being (naturally) good; that is to say, (natural) goodness, standing side by side with (natural) goodness, would (naturally) reject its mutual corruption as well as its own corruption and furthermore, the assumed absence of evil, understood as the antithesis of ―good,‖ would (otherwise) preclude the introduction of unwholesome examples seeking to promote a corrupting influence on (natural) goodness; moreover, were (natural) goodness


    7. Reason is subject to a variety of propositions, uncertain assumptions and questionable councils that oftentimes limit its ability to estimate things correctly or by passions likely to promote a corrupting influence on its ability to make rational decisions


    8. John saw all too well the corrupting influences in the churches of his day


    9. Soon, our proposal creates healthy competition of money’ power for the nonprofit organizations and it obtains the sinecures of the new alternative system with utilization of the same current market rule, without being predatory, without corrupting or to be corrupted by the money


    10. Ultimately, Socrates was tried for corrupting the youth and believing in one god who did good, certainly a divinity different than the gods of Athens

    11. corrupting her, but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him


    12. She relates details of these new procedures in her book PC, How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine


    13. separation and relation is due to the distorting and corrupting in-


    14. capitalist or industrialist of the late 19th century considered to have become wealthy by exploiting natural resources, corrupting legislators, or other unethical means


    15. ‘No my friends, evil has a way of corrupting the truth, I know that the voice was lying and that my wife is lost to me forever


    16. economy had to be kept clear of the corrupting


    17. of their businesses because of its corrupting influence


    18. the economy had to be kept clear of the corrupting


    19. We are corrupting the people


    20. I know you‘re seventeen and legal and more experienced than me in many ways, but as your teacher I‘d lose everything and probably serve a jail term for corrupting you

    21. The most condemnable aspect was that they occasioned the moral degradation in society with their corrupting influence


    22. the darkest intentions of corrupting the complete body of young


    23. lived by the cult of the corrupting television


    24. There seemed to be a new corrupting air that was


    25. By corrupting a computer's knowledge of IP addresses, the attacker causes


    26. inquisition fits the bill for a corrupting Fascist entity historically,


    27. due to the corrupting forces


    28. render the corrupting forces


    29. teaching their corrupting lies to their most impressionable youth;


    30. What’s so fascinating about sex? Is it worthy of so much attention and impassioned emotions? Is it the pinnacle of pleasure that approximates heaven on earth as some suggest, or is it the work of the devil corrupting mankind? To answer that, one needs to ask what sex is and what it isn’t

    31. The Party, in its great magnanimity, has decided to free you and to let you emigrate to your said ‘Holy Land’, where you will be able to rebuild your miserable lives without corrupting anymore the Soviet people with your cosmopolitanism and your Zionism


    32. He is corrupting our


    33. friendly” and “seeker sensitive”, corrupting our very hearts and souls in the


    34. (ii) It is an internal corrupting force


    35. As he daydreamed his self-conscious revived thoughts of the past, corrupting his sense of mental conviction as it replayed moments of humiliation, embarrassment and pain


    36. Oh how she has been wrecking her vengeance on Hindustan by taking the Indian political morality to new lows by corrupting everyone and everything in her sight that is whatever her mother-in-law left uncorrupted in the country’s systemic vitals!


    37. Yet Rome was the inverted symbol of the city, the anti city, a corrupted and corrupting mother who, instead of bringing life and blessing brought death and a curse


    38. Judas showed how merciless and corrupting the money can be


    39. corrupting children, slaying mothers


    40. In the previous verse, the Almighty revealed that He judged in the Book that they would corrupt in the land twice and would become of high worldly position; we have referred to a part of their own corruption but we mentioned nothing about their corrupting to the others

    41. For this superiority, envy and rage arise in the spirits of the unbelievers, and there they seek for corrupting the believers so as to wipe out that superiority and to keep their falseness hidden from people


    42. They used different ways as pretexts to justify their corrupting


    43. There are many stories in their books which uncover the circuitous ways they followed for corrupting, such as using the women, the money, the lechery and spreading the luxury


    44. Many people of this nation were always spreading corrupting and they are still doing that whenever they have the chance and find the circumstances opportune


    45. But corruption is not limited to seducement by desires, yet it is also followed by corrupting the creeds which nations embrace


    46. That is an abstract of their corruption and their corrupting, and of their upper hand then their destruction in the first time


    47. Al'lah veils the corrupting means off those who have the capability of believing truly and doing good


    48. Indeed, the Holy Qur'an has come with the highest and most perfect level of demonstration, organization and legislation, and within the limits that the Almighty has accepted to mankind where man should not turn wholly to the lower life and let it absorb all his bodily, spiritual, and intellectual abilities, for the foundation of the religious society and the atmosphere which man should live in and which agrees with his beliefs is that whose civilized standard should not come to the level of complicating and consuming all man's powers for only his lower life, since reaching such level produces dissension, injustice, pain, and wretchedness, exactly as we see nowadays, and such standard of living is considered corruption and causes corrupting, contenting oneself with the present life, and turning away from the aim which man has been created for


    49. At that time, she dreamt that the devils had put all their belongings on a donkey after losing hope and despairing of corrupting this truthful repentant


    50. Dark forces formed a government that ruled over the entire world, corrupting the world with the worst vices, hedonism, and ignorance of many forms













































    1. God knows that power corrupts, and he doesn’t give it out lightly, but what if he could find a generation that lives in his presence and knows his ways?


    2. The idleness of the greater part of the people who are maintained by the expense of revenue, corrupts, it is probable, the industry of those who ought to be maintained by the employment of capital, and renders it less advantageous to employ a capital there than in other places


    3. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard, with abhorrence, the irregular, uncertain, and adventurous life of a soldier


    4. It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance in any other employment, than that to which he has been bred


    5. survive the hardships to which the bad conduct of their parents exposes them, yet the example of that bad conduct commonly corrupts their morals ; so that, instead of being useful to society by their industry, they become public nuisances by their vices and disorders


    6. " Power corrupts, said the Greek philosophers, and the Nationalists were no different


    7. And one who takes and corrupts My gifts, for their own gain, shall be left desolate


    8. Sin corrupts, and in time, enslaves, in addition to which it has a master, the Devil,


    9. 5:40-7:27 And if any man will sue you through the law and takes away your shirt let him have your overcoat also; and whoever shall compel you to go one mile go with him two miles; Give to him who asks of you and from him who would borrow from you do not turn away; You all have heard that it has been said: You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy but I say to you love your enemies bless those who curse you do good to those who hate you and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you so that you all may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven because He makes his sun to rise on evil people and good people and sends rain on the just and on the unjust because if you all love those who love you what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you salute your brothers only what more do you do than others? Do not even the heathen do that? therefore be perfect even like your Father in Heaven who is perfect; be diligent so that you do not give your charity in front of men to be seen by them otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in Heaven; therefore do not sound a trumpet in front of you when you do your giving of charity like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets so that they may have the glory of men; truly I say to you they have their reward; but when you give charity do not let your left hand know what your right hand does so that your giving of charity may be in secret and your Father who sees secretly shall Himself reward you openly; and when you pray you shall not be as the hypocrites are because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men; truly I say to you they have their reward; but when you pray enter into your closet and when you have shut your door pray to your Father who is in secret and your Father who sees secretly shall reward you openly; and when you pray do not use vain repetitions like the heathen do because they think that they shall be heard from out of their long talks therefore do not be like them because your Father knows what things you have need before you ask Him therefore pray like this and in this manner: Our Father who is in Heaven let your name be holy; let your Kingdom come let your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven; give to us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil because Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory for ever; Amen; because if you all forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you but if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses; also when you fast do not be like the hypocrites with a sad expression because they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men as fasting; truly I say to you they have their reward; but when you fast anoint your head and wash your face so that you do not appear to men to be fasting; but fast because your Father who is in secret and who sees secretly shall reward you openly; Do not lay up treasures on the Earth for your selves where moth and rust corrupts and where thieves break into and steal but lay up treasures in Heaven for your selves where neither moth nor rust corrupts and where thieves do not break through nor steal; because where your treasure is there will be your heart also; The light of the body is the eye therefore if your eye is wholesome your whole body shall be filled with light; but if your eye is corrupt your whole body shall be full of darkness; therefore if the light that is in you is darkness how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters because either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to the one and despise the other; You cannot serve God and Mammon therefore I say to you have no fixation on thoughts about your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor even what you shall put on for your body


    10. “Power corrupts and the absolute raw power of

    11. The Almighty Sprug corrupts absolutely


    12. “Power corrupts and the absolute raw power


    13. of The Almighty Sprug corrupts absolutely


    14. Acton's truism: power, itself, corrupts


    15. corrupts our ability to see the truth and understand so


    16. The disease of idolatry is that it corrupts the


    17. is so corrupt that it corrupts the minds of those who fall into her


    18. The maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely was as true in those far off days as it is today


    19. “Built that way or not, all power corrupts


    20. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

    21. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts


    22. ALLAH is a non-human ruler and an absolute ruler whose words must be obeyed without discussion, without doubt and without question, “There is no bargaining”, and if power corrupts then absolute power of ALLAH corrupt absolutely


    23. “And unsuccessful is that who corrupts it!”


    24. Whereas that who shuns away from Al’lah and corrupts his spirit by immersing it in lechery, the misery will be his fate and he will incur nothing other than smarts and failure


    25. He (cpth) also said about the radio 'the antichrist's donkey' that: "No home it shall enter but corrupts it": that is: it corrupts the spirits of its listeners because of what immortal sexual low songs it broadcasts


    26. "and no store it shall enter but ruins it": that is: it corrupts the heart of the store's owner who turns inclining to amusement and impudence, and seeks to achieve his purposes and desires by getting winnings exceeding the humane extent


    27. always has instinctive corrupting tendencies as power rests with collectivity and power corrupts


    28. saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely, the collectivity at some stage becomes absolutely


    29. Civilization corrupts this dynamic of cooperation and the sharing of knowledge by overriding it with the need to accumulate that knowledge, hoard it, in order to gain some kind of advantage from it


    30. As long as you remain an isolated spectator in a consumer society you will have no power except the money that only corrupts you

    31. Although truth can be shocking, it is in the interest of these forces to amplify and perpetuate the negative state, for this not only slows and possibly corrupts the spiritual progress but this also creates an abundance of negative energy upon which they feed


    32. But nobody ever mentions… that this unwritten rule is precisely the dynamic which corrupts your own humanity


    33. Is anything any different? Human society corrupts truth very easily, by sanctifying two convenient hypocrisies:


    34. it corrupts truth emotionally by poisoning the meaning of what is said


    35. This is how civilization successfully poisons and corrupts all love within its boundaries


    36. The attempt to treat the human body as a machine which can be fixed, the conflicting motives of trying to profit from helping others while helping them, its goal of trying to kill disease rather than improve health; are all tool dynamics which corrupts any humanity involved


    37. Power and Wealth corrupts everyone: no matter who you are


    38. Giving money to other people just corrupts other people into the love of money


    39. It poisons, pollutes and corrupts every new idea until that new idea becomes the opposite of what it originally was


    40. Then once that new idea is completely destroyed and turned into an evil idea: if the idea is still too good: civilization either corrupts it and then preserves the corrupted idea throwing away the original good idea; or lets the good idea go out of fashion, and lets it be laughed at as old fashioned and out-of-date

    41. But civilization corrupts and poisons the human potential for living and life in humans living outside these prisons just as effectively as it poisons and blocks human development of criminals in bird-cages called prisons


    42. This is why absolute power corrupts absolutely


    43. There is an expression: ‘power corrupts,


    44. It corrupts the mind and the soul


    45. Failing is he who corrupts it


    46. And still those who have the charge of youth may find a way by watchfulness, by affection, by the manliness and innocence of their own lives, by occasional hints, by general admonitions which every one can apply for himself, to mitigate this terrible evil which eats out the heart of individuals and corrupts the moral sentiments of nations


    47. Well, I said, and is there no evil which corrupts the soul?


    48. People always want more power, and power corrupts


    49. • BlockStoreException: This is thrown when the block store cannot be created (most commonly, this happens with block store types that write to a file when something corrupts the file)


    50. “He is almost at his last gasp, yet he corrupts others










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    Synonyms for "corrupt"

    corrupt spoil cloud defile sully taint bribe buy grease one's palms debase debauch demoralise demoralize deprave misdirect pervert profane subvert vitiate tainted corrupted crooked debauched abandoned libertine base lost debased lubricious sinister mercenary underhanded praetorian false unethical venal unclean adulterated contaminated infected putrescent putrid seduce reach fix entice degrade demean lower canker poison adulterate rot contaminate stain misrepresent belie garble disguise colour varnish misstate

    "corrupt" definitions

    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality


    make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence


    place under suspicion or cast doubt upon


    alter from the original


    lacking in integrity


    not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive


    containing errors or alterations


    touched by rot or decay