#corrupt

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#corruption #families #future #had #incompetence

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#corruption #human way #inhuman #people #way

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. ↗

— Hall Caine

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I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money. ↗

— Jane Campion

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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#democracy #faith #nature #our #restoring

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

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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#conscience #incorruptible #only #thing #us

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. ↗

— William Gaddis

#people #power