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Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.

Mark Steyn

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Absolute Absolutely Corrupts Welfare

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Mark Steyn
Canadian - Writer
Born: 1959

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

Studs Terkel

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

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

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

Edward Brooke

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

Harry Shearer

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

Terence Rattigan

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

George Deacon

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Edmund Wilson

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

John W. Campbell

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Irvin D. Yalom

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.