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Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. -- Alice Paul
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. -- Edward Abbey
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. -- William Pitt
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -- George Orwell
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -- John Steinbeck
Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone. -- Scott Belsky
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. -- Benjamin Banneker
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. -- John Adams
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. -- Sophocles
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. -- Daniel De Leon
Bad company corrupts good character. -- Menander
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. -- Edmund Burke
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
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
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. -- David Brin
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. -- Jesse Ventura
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. -- John F. Kennedy
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated. -- Alveda King
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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
Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence. -- Jennifer Granholm
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. -- George Lucas
Patriotism corrupts history. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every uniform corrupts one's character. -- Max Frisch
Money corrupts the process of reasoning. -- Lawrence Lessig
All power corrupts but some must govern. -- John le Carre
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. -- Antisthenes
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. -- Lawrence Durrell
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now. -- Bill Gates
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech. -- Russ Feingold
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. -- Lawrence Lessig
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. -- Eric Hoffer
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals. -- Anonymous
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. -- Joseph Joubert
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer
The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them. -- Harry S. Truman
It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal. -- Nas
Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class. -- James Cook
Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind. -- Henry van de Velde
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. -- Jiang Qing
in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts. -- May Sarton
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. -- Daniel Schorr
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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. -- Francis Bacon
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. -- D. A. Carson
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. -- Frank Herbert
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important. -- Fred Brooks
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity. -- Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. -- Chris Hedges
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back. -- D. A. Carson
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. -- Will Durant
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. -- Matthew Parris
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil. -- William Shakespeare
Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely. -- Mark Steyn
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses -- John F. Kennedy
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor." -- William Pitt
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. -- Vinton Cerf
Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely. -- John W. Campbell
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Left corrupts everything it touches -- Dennis Prager
Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely. -- Ted Nelson
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. -- Edmund Wilson
It is not power that corrupts but fear. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. -- Eric Hoffer
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. -- Adlai Stevenson I
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil -- NA
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?? -- George Deacon
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. -- Germaine Greer
Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me -- Malcolm Muggeridge
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts. -- Paul Ryan
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. -- Immanuel Kant
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. -- Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little. -- Caitlyn Paige
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. -- Francois Fenelon
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. -- Henri Rousseau
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. -- Nelson Rodrigues
I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely. -- Vinton Cerf
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. -- Arthur Koestler
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. -- Elia Kazan
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. -- Joshua Reynolds
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. -- H. G. Wells
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. -- Edmund Burke
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. -- Clint Eastwood
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. -- P. D. James
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. -- Samuel Johnson
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable. -- Chinua Achebe
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products -- Niklaus Wirth
He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. -- Malik ibn Anas
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. -- Barbara Tuchman
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft. -- Lachlan Murdoch
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. -- Paul Fussell
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall. -- Selima Hill
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. -- Margaret Halsey
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others. -- Ayn Rand
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. -- Plato
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
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts. -- Bayard Rustin
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. -- George Orwell
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous. -- Leonard J. V. Compagno
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
Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process. -- Charles Koch
Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there. -- Tim Wu
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. -- Alexander Pope

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