Corrupting Force Quotes

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

[William Randolph] Hearst's power for evil is immeasurable.

The hosts of Hell have built their throne in England’s realm.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.