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  • Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

  • No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

    Pride   Missing   Gabriel  
  • The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.

    Taken   Years   People  
    Source: www.indians.org
  • Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

    Country   War   Power  
  • One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

    Taken   Science   Long  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.314, Ballantine Books
  • Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

    "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.
  • The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

    James Madison's notes on the debates in the Federal Convention, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 11, 1787.
  • Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

    Work   Power   Weakness  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.
  • No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

  • Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

    Power   Anarchy   Worst  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks
  • It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

    Spring   Winning   Power  
    "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.
  • We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

    Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”
  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

    "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.
  • The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

    David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books
  • All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

    Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141
  • Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

  • Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  • It is not power that corrupts but fear.

    Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • 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.

    David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books
  • I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

    "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
  • I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

    "Interview: ‘Walking Dead’ star David Morrissey discusses The Governor". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 28, 2012.
  • 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.

    Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

    Country   Money   Hands  
  • We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

    Gun   Rights   Government  
    Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.223, Best Books on
  • Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  • No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

    1971 In The Listener.
  • I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

    Love You   Power   People  
  • Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

    Fear   Loss   Power  
    "The Short Reign of Pippin IV". Book by John Steinbeck, p. 102, 1957.
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