"It was not power that corrupted people, but……" — Kim Stanley
"It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power."
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41 Quotes by Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley has 41 quotes on this site.
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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
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Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they…
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Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do…
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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
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The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a,…
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Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every…
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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic…
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell…
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Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
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An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
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It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it…
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It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall…
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More Corrupted Quotes
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous…
— Charley Reese
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The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too…
— Edward V. Long
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too…
— William Shakespeare
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does…
— Thomas Paine
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will…
— Noah Webster
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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
— Algernon Sidney
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
— Albert Einstein
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Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
— Manis Friedman
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
— Seneca the Younger
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