Corrupts Quotes
122 quotes by 93 authors
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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
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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…
— Socrates
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It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
— Unknown Author
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Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power…
— Edmund Burke
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
— Harry Shearer
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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…
— Sophocles
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Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
— Lawrence Lessig
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
— Edmund Wilson
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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's…
— Robert Caro
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Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
— Niklaus Wirth
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
— Lord Acton
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
— Vinton Cerf
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
— Daniel Schorr
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Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.
— Scott Belsky
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Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time
— Amit Abraham
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
— Eric Hoffer
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We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must…
— Terence Rattigan
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There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
— Jiang Qing
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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