“ I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast! ”
- George Canning- Copy
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“ It is not power that corrupts but fear. The 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- Copy
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“ 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… ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
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“ I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as unmixed evil. A man who loses his money gains, at least, experience, and sometimes something better. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
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“ There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. ”
- Andrew Jackson- Copy
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“ Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ”
- Edgar A. Shoaff- Copy
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“ Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ”
- Paul Dickson- Copy
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“ All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. ”
- Edmund Wilson- Copy
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“ Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. ”
- Andrew Jackson- Copy
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