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

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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. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

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Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. ↗

— Alice Paul

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

— Edward Abbey

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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. ↗

— Robert Caro

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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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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. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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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. ↗