"Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. — Edward Abbey
• Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
• Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
• One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I… — Jorge Luis Borges
• It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually… — David Brin
• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. — Edmund Burke
• The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of… — Hannah Arendt
• Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. — Chris Hedges
• It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert
• Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the… — Eric Hoffer
• The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow… — Lachlan Murdoch

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