Corrupts Quotes

122 Corrupts quotes by 93 unique authors

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
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. — Lawrence Lessig
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. — Edmund Wilson
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
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
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
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. — Vinton Cerf
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr
Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone. — Scott Belsky
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time — Amit Abraham
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. — Eric Hoffer
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
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
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. — Jiang Qing
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity. — Unknown Author
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own… — Unknown Author
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses — John F. Kennedy
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.… — Lord Acton
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the… — Noah Webster
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words:… — Savitri Devi
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to… — Jorge Luis Borges
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
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do… — George Orwell
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is… — Jonathan Haidt

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