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Quotes Tagged "corrupts"

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
— John Steinbeck
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— John Dalberg-Acton
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
— John F. Lehman, Jr.
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There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
— Jiang Qing
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
— George Orwell
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
— Edmund Burke
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
— William Pitt
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