Power Corruption Quotes
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Power Corruption Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion.
— George H. Smith
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
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
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
When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.
— Richard M. Nixon
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 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
