Top 21 Corrupt Absolutely Quotes
#1. I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
Charles Kennedy
#2. Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Frank Herbert
#4. Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.
Walker Evans
#5. I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.
Robert Irvine
#6. If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
#7. The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.
Elia Suleiman
#8. 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
#9. Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.
Robert Black
#10. The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.
Noam Chomsky
#11. In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#12. We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.
Marcy Kaptur
#13. 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.
Robert Caro
#14. Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.
Francis Fukuyama
#15. All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
Edgar Friedenberg
#16. Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange
#18. Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.
David Lee Roth
#19. The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights
Sunday Adelaja
#20. The monsters we can't see, the ones that dwell only in our minds, are the scariest ones of all. Because there's only one way to fight those monsters. With the help of someone who loves you.
Cassia Leo
