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Letter "C" » corrupt
«Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.»
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.»
Author: David Ogilvy
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Advertising,
Editors
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corrupt, editors, fewer, incorruptible
«Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.»
Author: Horace Mann
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apple, apple orchard, canker, cankers, corrupt, efforts, exclude, force of law, on paper, orchard, orchards, public property, sign in, The Force, worms
«Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.»
«Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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Absolute Power, corrupt, corrupts, tends, tends to
«If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt»
«Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.»
«Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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corrupt, corrupting, get into, position
«Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judgeThat no king can corrupt.»
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