Corrupts Quotes

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.”

“It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.”

“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.”

“Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.”

“Corrupts are in complete greed of money. They have no compassion for the fellow citizens. We all need to fight against this evil to eradicate corruption completely from this nation.”

“One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.”

“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”

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