Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

Saying of the Prophet Privacy Whoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

Caravan of Dreams

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Even the darkest of hearts needs a little comfort from time to time.

Corruption of the Soul

A blanket might make the ideal politician, because they’re warm, comforting, soft, and easily corruptible. 

Brick and Blanket

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

An Instance of the Fingerpost

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

The Magus

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

November

If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

Tawhid and Science

If Warren Buffet made chocolate, I’ll bet it’d be really rich. And corrupt.

This Book Has No Title

For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Margaret Carlson

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

P. Chidambaram

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

Paul Ryan

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Samantha Power

If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.

Sukant Ratnakar

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Thomas Jefferson

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Tiffany Madison

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Karl Kraus