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Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Terence / Playwright
Liberty
Too Much
Corrupts
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Bad company corrupts good character.
Menander / Dramatist
Good
Character
Company
Good Character
Bad
Good Character Bad
Corrupts
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
William Pitt / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Power
Politics
Power Corrupts
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Corrupts
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Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.
Arundhati Bhattacharya /
Credit
Corrupts
Debts
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John F. Lehman, Jr. /
Absolute Power
Neat
Power Corrupts
Absolute
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Corrupts
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke / Statesman
Flattering
Flattery
Giver
Receiver
Both
Corrupts
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton /
Power
Absolute Power
Power Corrupts
Absolute
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Absolute Power Corrupts
Corrupt
Corrupts
Tends
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Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.
Andy Dunn / Entrepreneur
Corrupts
Wheel
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Absolutes
Hollywood
Absolute
Absolutely
Corrupts
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell / Novelist
Inspirational
Life
Language
Political Language
Also
Corrupt
Thought
Corrupts
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Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
Alice Paul / Activist
Corrupts
Politicians
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey / Author
Power
Best
Anarchy
Dangerous
Worst
Always
Attracts
Corrupts
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck / Author
Power
Fear
Loss
Does
Corrupt
Corrupts
Perhaps
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith / Economist
Power
Expectations
Power Corrupts
States
United States
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Corrupts
Expectation
Though
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer / Actor
Power
Absolute Power
Doe
Political
Power Corrupts
Pure
Absolute
Absolute Power Corrupts
Make
Does
Corrupts
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There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
Jiang Qing / Film Actress
Love
Peace
Coexist
Coexistence
Ideological
Peaceful
Corrupts
Realm
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I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?
John Cooper Clarke / Poet
Citizen Kane
Power Corrupts
Citizen
Corrupts
Watch
Stands
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The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Joshua Reynolds / Painter
Men
Greatest Man
Greatness
Taste
Forms
Corrupts
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The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.
Victor Banerjee /
Expensive
Filmmaking
Corrupts
Worst Thing
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker / Surveyor
Communication
Science
Evil
Good Manners
Manners
Hope Good Bad
Bad
Corrects
Corrupts
Hear
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Absolute Power
Attorney
Found
Massachusetts
Power Corrupts
Absolute
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Absolute Power Corrupts
General
Attorney General
Corrupts
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Elia Kazan / Producer
Believe
Film
Hollywood
Made
Political
Power Corrupts
Thinking
Behind
Corrupts
Ever
Truly
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams / 2Nd U.s. President
Leadership
Power
Society
Authority
Character
Importance
Increase
Moral
Moral Authority
Persistence
Position
Power Corrupts
Corrupts
Demands
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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 / Writer
Ethics
Evil
Infinite
Spheres
Concept
Confuses
Corrupts
Limited
Speaking
Whose
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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
Cherie Blair / Barrister
Torture
Unreliable
Corrupts
Produces
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Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
Sharan Burrow /
Corporations
Oppression
Alike
Corrupts
Dictators
Governments
Survive
To Survive
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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 / President Of Ecuador
Absolute Power
Assuming
Experiments
Power Corrupts
Absolute
Absolute Power Corrupts
Anybody
Assume
Bad
Those
Corrupts
Ending
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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 / Scientist
Power
Corruption
Favourite
Power Corrupts
Said
Sane
Things
More
Actually
True
Attracted
Attracts
Corrupts
Other
Than
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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 / Burmese Politician
Inspirational
Motivational
Power
Fear
Losing
Power Corrupts
Scourge
Who
Those
Corrupts
Subject
Wield
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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 / Politician
Best
Communism
Figures
Human Nature
Whole
Everybody
Actually
He
Corrupts
Human
Figure
Would
Marx
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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 / Playwright
Home
Men
Money
Cities
Currency
Deeds
Grew
Mankind
Worst
Among
Base
Corrupts
Drives
Homes
Minds
Teaches
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The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.
Winnie Byanyima / Engineer
Denied
Corrupts
Disproportionate
Economic Opportunity
Flourish
Leads
Policies
Poorer
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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 / Politician
Exploits
Heart
Human Heart
Ideas
Progress
Sacred
Sentiments
Attacks
Destroys
Corrupts
Finer
Held
Opposed
Traditions
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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 / Pro-Life Activist
Believe
Certain
Falsehood
Human Beings
Lying
Racism
Self Centered
Spring
Springs
Beings
Less
Corrupts
Human
Lie
Fully
Minds
Right
Treat
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I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.
Dean Ornish / Physician
Abuse
Checks
Country
Founding
Needed
Power Corrupts
Too Much
Always
Much
Get
Any
Balances
Checks And Balances
Too
Concentrated
Corrupts
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Got
Place
Right
Strongly
Tends
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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 / 35Th U.s. President
Power
Men
Poetry
Arrogance
Concern
Diversity
Existence
Patriotic
Power Corrupts
Richness
Area
Corrupts
Him
Leads
Limitations
Reminds
Toward
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It seems to me virtually any ideology, no matter how intrinsically benign, can be used to oppress. And any group with power, no matter how well-meaning, ultimately corrupts and ends up exploiting its advantage to some extent.
Bryan Konietzko /
Benign
Ideology
Corrupts
Exploiting
Extent
Oppress
Virtually
Well-Meaning
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In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
Virat Kohli / Cricketer
Cricket
Hero
Villain
Corrupt
Corrupts
In The Past
Punished
Respects
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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
Charles Kennedy / British Politician
Absolute Power
Balance
Massive
Opinion
Parliamentary
Political
Power Corrupts
Secured
Absolute
Actually
Corrupt
Corrupts
Reflect
View
Subscribe
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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 / President Of Mongolia
Action
Law
Opposites
Polling
Power Corrupts
Representatives
Stations
Turns
Opposite
Actions
True
Ballot
Corrupts
Often
Elected
Unfortunately
Wallet
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Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.
Ajith Kumar /
Adulation
Awe
Difficult
Fame
Handle
Thinking
Everybody
Corrupts
Intoxicating
Start
Success Is
Wants
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The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
James Howard Kunstler / Author
Breathe
Decent
Demoralizing
Habitat
Mess
Ruins
Classes
Corrupts
Dictated
Zoning
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We know that, sooner or later, reckless government actions and policies have consequences. That when government corrupts the truth and breaks faith with the American people, the entire fabric of our society - everything we believe in and count on - is in jeopardy.
Wayne Lapierre / Author
Fabric
Jeopardy
Reckless
Sooner Or Later
Actions
Consequences
American People
Sooner
Breaks
Corrupts
Count
Entire
Later
Policies
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I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.
Jonathan Haidt / Psychologist
Equality
Blind
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Merit
Outcomes
Power Corrupts
Rewards
Stress
Thinking
Correct
Corrupts
Earned
Favor
Republicans
Forced
Seriously
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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 / Film Director
War
Classic
Hundred
Power Corrupts
Stars
Thinking
Years
Things
Because
Actually
Being
Again
Doing
Same
Charge
Star
Every
Corrupts
Wars
Few
Hundred Years
Over
Right
Same Things
Star Wars
Tendency
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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 / Journalist
Power
Absolute Power
Believe
Book
Lord
Power Corrupts
Taught
Started
Always Believe I Believe
About
More
Power Believe I Believe
Absolute Power Corrupts
Always
Any
True
Books
Axiom
Corrupt
Cleanse
Corrupts
More Power
Reveals
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The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.
Alex Gibney / Film Director
Administration
Macho
Torture
Weak
Bush
Bush Administration
Corrupts
Encourages
Engage
Terrorists
Ultimately
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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 / Former Governor Of Michigan
Advice
Believe
Engaging
Participating
Political
Change Believe Political
Corrupt
Corrupts
Change Political Believe
Political System
Quickly
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