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1. "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."
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
2. "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."
Author: David Brin
Author: David Brin
3. "This book will prove the following ten facts:1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch.3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity.4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight.5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast.6. An Englishman's home is his castle.7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.8. One black eye deserves another.9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm.10. It pays to increase your word power."
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
4. "Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject."
Author: Edward Abbey
Author: Edward Abbey
5. "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
Author: Edward Abbey
Author: Edward Abbey
6. "It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt."
Author: Frank Beddor
Author: Frank Beddor
7. "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."
Author: George Lucas
Author: George Lucas
8. "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
Author: Harry Shearer
Author: Harry Shearer
9. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Author: John Acton
Author: John Acton
10. "Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
Author: John Adams
Author: John Adams
11. "Absolute power corrupts, absolutly."
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
12. "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."
Author: John F. Kennedy
Author: John F. Kennedy
13. "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
Author: John Steinbeck
Author: John Steinbeck
14. "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."
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Author: Jonathan Haidt
15. "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley"
Author: Lord Acton
Author: Lord Acton
16. "One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable."
Author: Michel Templet
Author: Michel Templet
17. "All horsepower corrupts."
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
18. "One must always be careful, for the art of shamanism is fueled by the power of the will, interacting with the power of the plants. And it seems all too easy for some shamans to warp that power to dark ends, to the 'shamachismo' that can drive them to serve selfish ego desires. Power corrupts, and the spirit world can corrupt absolutely if it's not approached from a perspective of openness and servitude."
Author: Rak Razam
Author: Rak Razam
19. "But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary."
Author: Robert A. Caro
Author: Robert A. Caro
20. "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."
Author: Robert Caro
Author: Robert Caro
21. "Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."
Author: William Pitt
Author: William Pitt
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