Power corrupts Quote by John F. Kennedy Download Open image “When power corrupts, poetry cleanses” — John F. Kennedy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Power corrupts
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.” — Allen Grossman Copy Share Image
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
Sometimes we like to think if we had power, that we would be different, and we would be omnipotent, but the truth is absolute… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses… — Steve Ditko Copy Share Image
“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly proclaimed their… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
