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Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. -- Robert Caro
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. -- William Gaddis
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. -- George Bernard Shaw
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. -- Steve Ditko
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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. -- William Gaddis
Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character. -- Orrin Woodward
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 knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt? -- James Moore
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. -- Frank Herbert
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. -- John C. Calhoun
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -- John Steinbeck
If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington? -- Ted Cruz
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. -- Ted Nugent
The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism. -- Jack McDevitt
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal. -- George Agnew Reid
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory. -- Loretta Lynch
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
Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power. -- Stuart Wilde
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy. -- Zephyr Teachout
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. -- Audre Lorde
We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. -- Vince Vaughn
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power. -- Isabel Paterson

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