All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.