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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. by Adlai Stevenson I

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Adlai Stevenson I
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If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Arthur Koestler
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. by Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi
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With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Clint Eastwood
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power e... by Daniel Schorr

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

Daniel Schorr
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but it... by Eric Hoffer

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

Eric Hoffer
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Frank Herbert
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If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt? by James Moore

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

James Moore
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All power corrupts but some must govern. by John le Carre

All power corrupts but some must govern.

John le Carre
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A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

Leonard J. V. Compagno
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Great men are almost always bad men. by Lord Acton

Great men are almost always bad men.

Lord Acton
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It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

Mark Pellegrino
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Rafael Correa
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Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Robert Caro
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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely. by Ted Nelson

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Ted Nelson
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson
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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. by Vinton Cerf

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, wh... by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chat...

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John F. Lehman, Jr.
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