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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. -- Rafael Correa
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. -- Robert Caro
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. -- Eric Hoffer
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?? -- George Deacon
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. -- Clint Eastwood
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action. -- Steven Brust
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself? -- Terence Rattigan
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves. -- Howard Nemerov

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