What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted? [ Massinger ]

Taste has never been corrupted bj simplicity. [ Joubert ]

Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also. [ Seneca ]

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. [ Fielding ]

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted. [ Beecher ]

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. [ Montaigne ]

A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men like the clods of the field; but, in the blood-stained furrows germinates a new generation, and the soul aggrieved, believes again. [ Guizot ]

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]