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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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Bad company corrupts good character. ↗

— Menander

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The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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

— Harry Shearer

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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

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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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Rafael Correa

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