Words matter. These are the best Corrupts Quotes from famous people such as Dean Ornish, Alveda King, Edward Abbey, Benjamin Banneker, Elia Kazan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.
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.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
The story being told in ‘Star Wars’ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Bad company corrupts good character.
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.
Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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.
Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
It seems to me virtually any ideology, no matter how intrinsically benign, can be used to oppress. And any group with power, no matter how well-meaning, ultimately corrupts and ends up exploiting its advantage to some extent.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
I don’t think ‘Citizen Kane’ stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn’t know that?
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
We know that, sooner or later, reckless government actions and policies have consequences. That when government corrupts the truth and breaks faith with the American people, the entire fabric of our society – everything we believe in and count on – is in jeopardy.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don’t try violence.
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
