As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
Money corrupts the process of reasoning.
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.
It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
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.
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
The Left corrupts everything it touches
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses
Patriotism corrupts history.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
