Beauty is as summer-fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

-Burke, Edmund
  Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

-Fuller, Roy Broadbent
  'Translation'.

   Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Democracy'.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.408^10.