O, that estates degrees and offices were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour were purchased by the merit of the wearer! (The Merchant of Venice)
Corrupt Quotes
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.
The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.
