Character Quote by Noam Chomsky

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

— Clive James

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

— Eric Hoffer

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

It is arrogant to profess virtues that you cannot live up to, and retreated into indolent seclusion.

— Senoraroy

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor…

— Noah Webster

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

— Masha Gessen

“The moral attitudes of dominant and privileged groups are characterised by universal selfdeception and hypocrisy. The unconscious and conscious identification of their special interests…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

— George Richard Marek

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

— Don Marquis