Thomas Gray Quotes

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

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

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Evil changes everybody!

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

The fate of our country, and hence of the world, depends on the degree to which the American people achieve liberal education. It is a process…of placing in the hands of the American people the means of continuing and revitalizing Western civilization, for the sake of the West and for the sake of all mankind.

Globilization is here to stay.

Force always attracts men of low morality ... tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.

Let the king prohibit gambling and betting in his kingdom, for these are vices that destroy the kingdoms of princes.

More than Iran’s enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption …. I recently read in the news that a senior official in an important American political center said “Instead of bombs, send them miniskirts”. He is right. If they arouse unrestrained mixing of men and women, and if they lead youth to behavior to which they are naturally inclined by instincts, there will no longer be any need for artillery and guns against that nation.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.

I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.