All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
Bad company corrupts good character.
Menander
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
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
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Elia Kazan
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
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
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John F. Lehman, Jr.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton
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
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