36 Corrupts Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

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

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. George Lucas

Power Corrupts You Corrupts Power Few Every Think Hundred Hundred Years Charge Classic Tendency Over Because Doing Years Same Same Things Being Story Again Wars Star Star Wars Actually Right Things Start

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 it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro

Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Believe Books Corrupt About More More Power Absolute Absolute Power Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Cleanse True Reveals Always Lord Any Taught Believed Started Axiom

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. William Pitt

Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Unlimited Unlimited Power

Bad company corrupts good character. Menander

Good Character Corrupts Bad Good Character Company

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely. Charles Kennedy

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Hope Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Become Stations Some True Opposite Ballot Wallet Often Representatives Polling Unfortunately Turn Elected Turns Actions

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. John Kenneth Galbraith

Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Expectation States Though United United States

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. Joshua Reynolds

Man Corrupts Nation He Greatest Greatest Man Taste Forms Next Who

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past. Virat Kohli

Game Hero Corrupts Past Cricket Punished Respects Corrupt Does Been Person In The Past Should Who Villain

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. Daniel De Leon

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time. Ajith Kumar

Success Time You Corrupts Believe Difficult Thinking Everybody Intoxicating Adulation Around Fame Very Handle Wants Success Is Awe Start

The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence. Alex Gibney

Good Intelligence Strong Values Corrupts Own Our Weak Macho System Administration Torture Policy Because Terrorists Ultimately Encourages Get Bush Bush Administration Engage View Whole Thing

Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture. Arundhati Bhattacharya

Culture Corrupts Debts Credit

Corrupts Quotes

No more corrupts quotes