Famous quotes containing the word corrupts:
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
““Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Yes, and absolute weakness corrupts absolutely.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)