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Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Absolute power doesn’t corrupt, but rather, reveals character  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.  (Corrupt Power Quotes) If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power doesn’t corrupt. It’s neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It’s the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.  (Corrupt Power Quotes) There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.  (Corrupt Power Quotes) 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  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power  (Corrupt Power Quotes) In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins  (Corrupt Power Quotes) If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?  (Corrupt Power Quotes) The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely  (Corrupt Power Quotes) 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?  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power  (Corrupt Power Quotes) Power doesn’t corrupt. It’s neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It’s the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally  (Corrupt Power Quotes) The students I’ve been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane  (Corrupt Power Quotes)