Top Corrupts Quotes
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
David Brin 
John F. Kennedy 
Jorge Luis Borges 
Jiang Qing 
Malcolm Muggeridge All Corrupts Quotes
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer 
58% of people like this quote
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
57% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
56% of people like this quote
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Malcolm Muggeridge
56% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Joshua Reynolds
55% of people like this quote
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
54% of people like this quote
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