“When everything is for sale, even an era gets renamed.” — Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
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Power And Corruption Quotes
Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
Source: The Postman
“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
“We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”
“Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
Source: The Postman
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change