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35 quotesPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power
Lord Acton
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love
Francis Bacon
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Ends and Means
Georges Bernanos
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Crime and Criminals
Daniel J. Boorstin
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Science and Scientists
Jacob Bronowski
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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Corruption
Edmund Burke
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Flattery
Edmund Burke
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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
Mind
Marcus T. Cicero
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Morality
Charles Caleb Colton
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Law and Lawyers
Benjamin Disraeli
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Praise
Albert Einstein
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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.
Conscience
Henry Fielding
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Books - Reading
Henry Fielding
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
Power
William Gaddis
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Liberty
Edward Gibbon
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Faith
Eric Hoffer
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There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
Ideology
Jiang Qing
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Communism and Socialism
John F. Kennedy
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
Corruption
John Lyly
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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Communication
Menander of Athens
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Corruption
Bess Myerson
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Power
William Pitt
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Credit
Alexander Pope
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When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Speakers and Speaking
Seneca
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun