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Corrupts Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others…
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
- Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts…
- Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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- Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
- One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking… — Jorge Luis Borges
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer
- But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have… — Kenny Smith
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton
- If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] —… — Savitri Devi
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics;… — Jorge Luis Borges
- There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's… — Lord Acton