All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Daniel De Leon

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Elia Kazan

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John F. Lehman, Jr.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Joshua Reynolds