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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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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.


John Adams


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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.


John Acton


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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.


Lord Acton


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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.


Lord Acton


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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.


David Brin


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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.


John F. Lehman, Jr.


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


Harry Shearer


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