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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.


David Brin


#attracted #attracts #corrupts #more #other

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.


William Falconer


#augments #consequences #corruptions #health #incident

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


Jacob Bronowski


#immune #infection #politics #power #science

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

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.


James L. Buckley


#amendment #appearance #avoid #campaign #consequence

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.


James L. Buckley


#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.


James L. Buckley


#campaign #campaign contributions #concerned #contributions #corruption

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


Alan Bullock


#corruption #human way #inhuman #people #way

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.


William Pitt


#begins #corrupt #ends #i #know

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.


Jiang Qing


#coexistence #corrupts #ideological #peaceful #realm






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