Sentence examples similar to corrosive morals from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, morally bad habits — including corrupt actions — are extremely corrosive of moral character, and therefore of institutional roles and ultimately institutions.

Even fans of capitalism concede that it can have a corrosive effect on morals and community ties.

All that is extremely corrosive to the moral fibre of the country.

"This is the most corrosive failure of moral behaviour I have seen in a major UK financial institution in my career," he said.

And "morally corrosive" is exactly the term that some critics would apply to the new science of the moral sense.

His conclusion — and Ronson is a social observer with a comic temperament, not a gavel-banging moralist — is that we've been swept up into accepting and nurturing a culture of increasingly severe moral punishment, corrosive to the shamed and the shamer alike.

It's an immoral industry that exploits our most base human impulses and is a corrosive acid on the moral fiber of our nation.

As the author of 14 wildly inventive novels, Vonnegut might have cited the perils of technology or the corrosive effects of wealth or the moral tolls of war.

Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good.

Matthew Syed went as far as to call him a corrosive influence on the game from a moral point of view, the man from the Times questioning his wealth and saying that he bought Chelsea for political reasons.

Rousseau entered his Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (conventionally known as the First Discourse) in the competition and won first prize with his contrarian thesis that social development, including of the arts and sciences, is corrosive of both civic virtue and individual moral character.