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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

Topics: Attacks Away Capitalism Corrupts Destroys Exploits Finer Heart Held Human Human Heart Ideas Old Once Opposed Progress Sacred Sentiments Things Those Traditions

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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

Topics: Actually Attracted Attracts Corrupts More Other Power Power Corrupts Said Sane Than Things True

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I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Abuse Always Any Balances Believe Checks Checks And Balances Concentrated Corrupts Country Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Get Got Much Needed Our Place Power Power Corrupts Right Strongly Tends Time Too Too Much You

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Both Corrupts Flattery Giver Receiver

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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Absolute Absolutely Corrupts Hollywood

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

~Edward Abbey

Topics: Always Attracts Best Corrupts Dangerous Power Worst

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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: Absolute Absolute Power Absolutely Attorney Attorney General Corrupts Found General Massachusetts Out Power Power Corrupts

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

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Behind Believe Corrupts Ever Every Film Hollywood Made Political Power Power Corrupts Thinking Truly

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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.

~George Lucas

Topics: Actually Again Because Being Charge Classic Corrupts Doing Every Few Hundred Hundred Years Over Power Power Corrupts Right Same Same Things Star Star Wars Start Story Tendency Things Think Wars Years You

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

~George Orwell

Topics: Also Corrupt Corrupts Language Thought

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