| Is the film a gratuitous violence fest or maybe just a blatant metaphor for how greed corrupts? |
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| Doesn't that sort of fly in the face of this argument that big money corrupts the system? |
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| The author's focus on how money corrupts the political process is dead right, of course, but it's hardly original. |
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| It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. |
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| Alcohol consumption becomes a sin when it corrupts righteous thought or behavior, harms health, or violates any civil law. |
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| Perhaps it is you that corrupts whatever guy you get to know since we all seem destined for the slammer! |
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| Their power is absolute, and, as the old saw has it, absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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| You probably know this, but Rousseau argues that we're all born good, without taint of sin, and society inexorably corrupts us. |
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| Lord Acton's dictum that absolute power corrupts absolutely holds good today. |
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| It corrupts institutions, government officials and the private sector and undermines the rule of law, economies and national security. |
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| It is morally devastating and corrupts men by cumulative temptation. |
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| Pressure must be brought to finally resolve the Transnistrian question, which truncates and corrupts the Moldovan state. |
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| It is a crime against humanity, which degrades the victim and corrupts and debases the torturer. |
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| An official policy of torture corrupts the torturers and the people charged with overseeing it. |
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| But in reality he is the quintessential example of how Washington corrupts. |
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| A like evil corrupts the intentions of protest against the war where the protester is aroused by phantasies of acts he has never committed or seen. |
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| This is not a power that corrupts but rather that emanates and is omnipresent. |
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| Still, the purification rituals of the city involve a suspicion running through all economic classes that vile filth corrupts that which they are not. |
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| Anyone who corrupts as a president or coach will never manage or coach again. |
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| The moral consideration of Animal Farm is that power corrupts people. |
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| In league with the Devil, she castrates and destroys by her ugliness, just as the beautiful young witch emasculates and corrupts by her beauty. |
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| Thus, if noise corrupts some values, there will still be copies of each value left to recover the hidden message. |
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| If absolute power corrupts absolutely, we might now understand that bigness works in a similar way. |
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| The drug trade not only infects people: it also corrupts governments, together with business and finance. |
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| I said that it was in the natural order of things that absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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| Money corrupts the process, of course, but voters have let that happen, let rich people and organizations have an influence on the process that ordinary folks can't match. |
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| The presence of repeat contacts for the same charge corrupts these data sets for that purpose. |
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| This territory is a haven for gansterism, smuggling and money laundering and corrupts the local authorities around the Odessa oblast in Ukraine. |
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| Lord Acton said that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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| The power of bigness corrupts by spreading the twisted logic of bigness. |
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| Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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| As they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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| Efforts to restore peace and security to Somalia are critically undermined by a corrosive war economy that corrupts and enfeebles State institutions. |
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| Ironically, the pressure for the money shot corrupts the notion of having regular people talking about regular issues. |
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| While reducing us to consumers, free market fundamentalism also corrodes, corrupts or demonizes all other basic social instruments, like effective government programs and regulations. |
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| Of all the human emotions, there is none that corrupts as much as fear, none that distorts characters more, none that more effectively prevents the development of all the faculties. |
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| What it captures brilliantly are the contradictions of a play in which justice is confronted by mercy, death is seen as a blessed release and a source of terror, and power both corrupts and is beneficently deployed. |
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| It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labour unions and so on. |
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| But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. |
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| In recent months, Canadians are learning the sad degree to which power corrupts for this group: the adage seems to be that if it is good for the Liberal Party, it is good for Canada. |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi expressed her convictions in these words: 'The fear of losing power corrupts those who hold it and the fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are ruled by it. |
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| Regardless of its origin and form, racism raises barriers against the development of its individual or group victims, corrupts those who practice it, and divides communities and nations. |
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| But, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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| By this reasoning, adding an incompatible belief corrupts the original religion, rendering it no longer true. |
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| Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. |
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| But there is no doubt that today over-commercialization and cost cutting corrupts the media, rendering them shallow and event-driven, contributing to apathy and disillusionment. |
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| This relationship is controversial, as many believe that the heritage industry corrupts the meaning and importance of cultural objects. |
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| The odd and curious is born good and pure. The society corrupts. |
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