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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— John Acton

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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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

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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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