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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts ... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. — John Steinbeck

Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society. — Jean Ure

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power. — Elliott Colla

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. — Frank Herbert

That no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption. — Gennifer Albin

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. — Wally Lamb

Those who have been intoxicated with power ... can never willingly abandon it. — Edmund Burke

Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power. — Lujan Matus

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. — Robert Payne

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion. — Publius Papinius Statius

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others — Jocelyn Murray

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse — Dean Cavanagh

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it. — Carlos Fuentes

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. — Clive James

Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion. — George H. Smith

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates. — Roger B. Taney

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record. — Peter Hook

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. — Eric Hoffer

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way. — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. — Wendell Berry

Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest. — Lara Adrian

When there is power there is corruption, free yourself from these vicissitudes and you will build an empire based on your beliefs. — Davey

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality. — Lord Acton

Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power. — Dean Koontz

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that. — Deepak Chopra

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. — John F. Kennedy

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. — Kate Elliott

When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal. — Richard M. Nixon

The highest mode of corruption is the abuse of power. — Auliq Ice

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney

I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I. — Pawan Mishra

Power required corruption, and corruption rewarded power. — V.E Schwab

It is true that nobody is above the law,
but power can make somebody invisible. — Toba Beta

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. — Felix O. Hartmann

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick A. Bell

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. — Jacob Bronowski

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel. — Steven Magee