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Power 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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Flattery
Edmund Burke

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power
John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Power
William Pitt

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Power
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun