Corrupts Quotations

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

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.

It corrupts data so it's not usable, but we have developed a cleaner to cope with this,

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

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.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Power - Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The phrase 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely' only exists to discourage good people from getting in positions where they can positively affect the world

If you think about the result, it corrupts the process.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Great men are almost always bad men.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the rest.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.