Corrupts

Famous quotes containing the word corrupts:

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Association with other people corrupts our character Mespecially when we have none.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)