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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.


Edward Abbey


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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.


John Adams


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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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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


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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.


Edmund Burke


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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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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.


Elia Kazan


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Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.


Alveda King


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