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 More about this quote Tags: politics power corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politicians are the same all over; they promise to build a bridge even where there is no water. —Nikita Kruschchev More about this quote Tags: politics corruption promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. —Frantz Fanon More about this quote Tags: politics history power USA corruption Europe colonialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. —William Gaddis More about this quote Tags: power people corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: power faith corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection. … Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: money corruption affection healing wounds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Tags: cynicism idealism corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: power ignorance democracy corruption incompetence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Vote early and vote often. —Al Capone More about this quote Tags: humor democracy corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: power faith corruption absolutes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: law crime corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. —Oscar Levant More about this quote Tags: politics power USA wealth corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. —P. J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: politics money corruption legislation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email