Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

- Alice Paul

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

- Edmund Burke

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

- Edward Abbey

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

- Edward Brooke

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

- Edmund Wilson

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

- George Orwell

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- John Acton

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

- Jiang Qing

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- John F. Lehman, Jr.

Bad company corrupts good character.

- Menander

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

- Terence

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

- William Pitt