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Taint 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…
- The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
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- Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. — Samuel Butler
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer
- They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the… — James Lee
- I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a… — Chelsea Handler
- His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine. — Mark Twain
- Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's… — John Barth
- The taint of arrogance will I not know... — Walter Russell