Corrupting Influence Quotes

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power is poison. Its effects on Presidents had always been tragic; chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bar the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carrion.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

Interest is the invention of Satan

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

An evil word it is/ This Love.

I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.