Corruption Quote by Adlai Stevenson I Download Open image “Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.” — Adlai Stevenson I ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Power Power corrupts Power Corrupts Absolutely Work
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense. — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses... — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system manipulated by a fascist executive system and its annihilative corruption be the incurable epidemics of the disintegration of the environmental, emotional, social, intellectual, physical, professional, occupational, moral and ethical destruction of your homeland. ~ Angelica Hopes,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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