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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. – Immanuel Kant	added by Normando 2 years ago
I think Washington corrupts people, he was a wonderful husband and father. The best I ever saw, until he went there. I told him I was trying to get him out of the dark side — all that power and greed and people kissing up to them all the time. Now he’s one of them. All they care about is getting reelected. I hate them all. – Susan LaTourette	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. – Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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, on power and corruption	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton, 1887	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? – Harry Shearer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat – John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Too much liberty corrupts us all. – Terence	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Ernst Steinbeck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. – John Lehman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure – Nicolas Boileau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Emerich Edward Dalbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangstersget control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

– Immanuel Kant

added by Normando
2 years ago

I think Washington corrupts people, he was a wonderful husband and father. The best I ever saw, until he went there. I told him I was trying to get him out of the dark side — all that power and greed and people kissing up to them all the time. Now he’s one of them. All they care about is getting reelected. I hate them all.

– Susan LaTourette

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

– John Steinbeck

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

– Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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, on power and corruption

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

– Lord Acton, 1887

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

– Harry Shearer

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat

– John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

– Unknown