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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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Edmund Wilson
American
Critic
Born:
May 8
,
1895
Died:
Jun 12
,
1972
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Power Corrupts
Character
Moral Authority
Corrupts
Power
Society
Increase
Increases
Moral
Demands
Importance
Because
Authority
Position
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
Power Corrupts
Man
Arrogance
Corrupts
Diversity
Power
Poetry
Area
Toward
Reminds
Leads
Concern
Him
Limitations
His
Existence
Richness
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Fear
Corrupts
Power
Corrupt
Perhaps
Does
Loss
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Alveda King
Racism
Lie
Treat
Corrupts
Others
Our
Minds
Would
Self-Centered
Springs
Falsehood
Than
Human
Want
Human Beings
Certain
Less
Fully
Beings
Believing
Right
Treated
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
Best
Dangerous
Corrupts
Power
Worst
Attracts
Always
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
Language
Thought
Corrupts
Corrupt
Also
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Power Corrupts
Fear
Losing
Corrupts
Power
Those
Subject
Scourge
Who
Wield
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin
Power Corrupts
Corrupts
Power
Other
More
True
Attracted
Attracts
Said
Than
Sane
Actually
Things
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
Corrupts
Giver
Both
Flattery
Receiver
I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.
Dean Ornish
Power Corrupts
Time
You
Too Much
Corrupts
Power
Country
Believe
Too
Fathers
Our
Strongly
Tends
Abuse
Checks
Checks And Balances
Concentrated
Balances
Always
Got
Get
Any
Place
Much
Founding
Founding Fathers
Right
Needed
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