<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Corruption - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10186]]></link><description><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence   Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst;  'Twas the corrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst;  'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd   Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;    That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)     Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10193]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10194]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place,   For such preferment is disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10195]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,   Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196]]></link><description><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item></channel></rss>