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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.
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.
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process.
The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because it suppresses the reality of the presence of God as the key to biblical understanding.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.
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.
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation's aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.
The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.
The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.
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?
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
