Top 26 Corrupts Absolutely Quotes
#2. If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
#4. To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa
#5. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.
Howard Nemerov
#6. 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.
Studs Terkel
#7. 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
#8. Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.
Robert Black
#9. All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
#10. 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.
Mark Pellegrino
#11. I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We
Brandon Sanderson
#12. In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#13. They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.
Nina Bangs
#14. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
from Steelheart (Reckoners #1)
by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
#15. 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
#16. All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
Lawrence Durrell
#17. 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.
Irvin D. Yalom
#18. I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
Vinton Cerf
#19. All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
Edgar Friedenberg
#20. The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
Chinua Achebe
#21. Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.
Silvia Hartmann
#22. 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.
Steven Brust
#23. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric Hoffer
#24. A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
Leonard J. V. Compagno
#25. 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
#26. 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
