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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
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Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord Acton
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If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
Arthur Koestler
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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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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Frank Herbert
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Daniel Schorr
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I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
Vinton Cerf
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Vinton Cerf
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
Eric Hoffer
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It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.
Mark Pellegrino
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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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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
Ted Nelson
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If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
James Moore
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A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
Leonard J. V. Compagno
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With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
Clint Eastwood