“Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
“That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,… — Plato Copy Share Image
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by… — David Brin Copy Share Image
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
