Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.
It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. " One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.
The heart is what is important. " There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember!
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
