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I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people. — Amber Heard

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

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name. — Pete Hamill

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. — William Henry Harrison

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac

Power is always a corrupting influence. — Charles Dance

I mean, they were really high and pointy, and although I'm not clumsy, they were potentially lethal both to me and anyone in my general vicinity. — Myra McEntire

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. — G. M. Trevelyan

The necessary condition for an image is sight, — Roland Barthes

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr

Don't ever call me adorable again. Puppies are adorable. — Dean Koontz

You just have to forget whatever you were taught about "meaningful work" and start noticing whatever has meaning to you. — Barbara Sher

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

absolute power is corrupting — Richard Wright