These are the Blank Slate (the belief that the mind is wholly shaped by the environment), the Noble Savage (the notion that people are born good but are corrupted by society), and the Ghost in the Machine (the idea that there is a nonbiological agent in our heads with the power to change our nature at will).
Born of the corrupt Chicago political machine".
"BARACK OBAMA, born of the corrupt Chicago political machine", begins a sinister voice in a McCain advertisement.
Imam: I think that whenever we see greater manifestations of evil in the world, we have to recognize that they are born out of corrupt hearts, and it is a warning to human beings as to how much destruction one can cause with such a corrupt heart.
Through Igby's eyes, the privileged world he was born into is as corrupt, hypocritical and stiflingly conformist as the one that Salinger's alter ego reacted against more than 50 years ago.
"The corrupt were born of families that integrate this society," but Argentines have ignored "that we freely elected them and bought their lies because we cannot tolerate that anyone would place in doubt the idea that this is the richest and greatest country in the world".
Born out of the corrupt politics of the early 20th century and the "yellow" journalism of Hearst and Pulitzer, it was only gradually displaced by the values of a new generation of publishers that adhered to higher standards of journalistic integrity.
Instead of what a lot of hippies and Democrats think, which is we're born innocent and pure and society corrupts us.
There will always be some dogs who are corrupted, misled and – like Stalin – born to the left but end up on the fascistic right.
"I feel like everybody is born good, but at some point you get corrupted," he said.
Many Americans today assume that people are born with a good Inner Self but get corrupted by politics.
