Top 193 Corrupts Quotes & Sayings

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.

In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Patriotism corrupts history.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

The Left corrupts everything it touches

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

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

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.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.

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.

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

Bad company corrupts good character.

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

Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that alone they corrupt it. And so at the NSA, at the Defense Intelligence Agency, at the CIA, and at the FBI, there are Obamaites, there are people that think like he.

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

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.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.