"Power is always a corrupting influence." — Charles Dance

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• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,… — P T Barnum
• Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in… — Saul Alinsky
• Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed. — James F. Cooper
• If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept… — Ayn Rand
• The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that… — Susan Sontag
• If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the… — Brad Pitt
• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg
• Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches. — Euripides
• The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent… — Lachlan Murdoch
• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion… — James Madison
• My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis… — Jack Nicholson
• The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac

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