If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see…

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

“The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.”

— J. M. Coetzee

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

— William Habington

In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion…

— Edward Gibbon

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of…

— Edward Gibbon

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when…

— Saul Alinsky

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

— Derrick Bell

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

— William Henry Harrison

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it?…

— Jane Campion

When I say corrupting, I mean taking over and politicizing them for the express purpose of advancing the leftist agenda. And the advancement of…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.”

— Sue Grafton

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

— George Orwell

“absolute power is corrupting”

— Richard Wright

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

— Antony Beevor

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

— Daniel Schorr