Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply ...

Moab is my Washpot

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the wh...

War and Peace

Who is to blame? The filth peddler, of course, but even more than this vulgar entertainer, the filth consumer, the public. So long as men are corrupt and revel in sewer filth, entertainers will sell them what they want. Laws may be passed, arrests ma...

The Miracle of Forgiveness

Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a m...

George Spencer-Brown

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Isabel Allende

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Believers: A novella and stories

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Andre Bazin

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

Holy Bible: King James Version

This world is too comfort to be changed. This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.

Munia Khan

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

Pratibha Patil

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Bill Gates

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

Bob Schaffer

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead one..." Geordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption

Hilary Mortz

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

Julian Assange

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

James Bryant Conant

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen