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Letter "C" » corrupts
«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
| About:
Corruption,
Power
| Keywords:
attracted, attracts, corruptible, corrupts, sane
«If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?»
«If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?»
«And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
Absolute Power, all too, concentration, concentration of power, corrupts, gangster, gangsters, mentality, proven
«Bad company corrupts good character»
«But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.»
«Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Power,
Society
| Keywords:
corrupts, increases, moral character
«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.»
«Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power»
«Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
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conversant, corrupts, elegant, meddled, meddles, modestly
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