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"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely -- enter and enjoy."
YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING, POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lutz told me, quoting Lord Acton&aposs dictum.
"Choosing those words corrupts the dialogue, corrupts what should be a very serious dialogue," he said.
"Dependency corrupts and absolute dependency corrupts absolutely," Irving Kristol argued in the New York Times Magazine in 1983.
If knowledge is power and power corrupts, the construction can be refined further to 'data corrupts', is the suggestion.
And, so, I think the problem is absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a little power corrupts in petty, nasty ways.
HARRISON: It&aposs the old adage, power corrupts - absolute power corrupts absolutely, and they will do anything to hold onto that power.
At its core, this is not a business or government problem, but a human nature problem; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
As Jefferson and Madison understood, the destruction of the wall that separates church and state corrupts politics just as surely as it corrupts religion.
"Start with Lord Acton and the famous axiom that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," said Wayne Flynt, a retired professor of history at Auburn University.
The feeble excuses from Saudi spokesmen, the changing and contradictory "lines to take", all speak to an old truth: the danger that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
But power corrupts, as his own Bible could've warned him.
Disclosure rules may seem arcane, but money corrupts medical research.
The moral is that power corrupts, and corruption is fun.
I see the situation through the "extremism corrupts everybody" narrative.
The acquisition by a seemingly faceless corporation corrupts this relationship.
Remain campaigner Stephen Kinnock warned that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," adding that May was attempting to grab a dangerous level of power to rewrite or scrap long-standing laws and rights.
We know the old adage – absolute power corrupts, and all that.
So the contagion mutates and corrupts portfolios in a different way.
" Later, she added, "Wanting people to like you corrupts your writing.
These two affairs illustrate, with depressing succinctness, just how badly power corrupts.
Abroad, it snoops, steals, kidnaps, cheats, pollutes, undermines, corrupts, proliferates, and bullies.
But power corrupts more easily when you have neither principles nor integrity.
When absolute power corrupts absolutely' a dictator's first casualty is usually their wardrobe.
Power corrupts, Braithwaite implies—even when there's a lot of bleach on hand.
The secret of power is not that it corrupts; that is well known.
The show has always been about how big money in capitalist America corrupts.
Money corrupts—which, duh—but the Epstein episode tells an even bigger story.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lord Acton once said.
Unlimited power corrupts, even when the power is wielded by people in hoodies.
Instead, it argues what the show has always argued: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Then, the season will replicate what happened before; absolute power corrupts absolutely, after all.
It's the old story that power corrupts and he just naturally falls into it.
We think the very wealthy are nefarious and greedy, and that money corrupts them.
Once you know it's there, money becomes hard to resist, and it inevitably corrupts.
Power distorts, power corrupts, power leavens—and power can change hands, even systemically, very fast.
For example, liberalism warns that uninterrupted power corrupts and that privilege risks becoming self-perpetuating.
McCain fought to free the nation from the dirty campaign money that corrupts our democracy.
Now imagine the anguish if your 1TB card corrupts and you lose everything on it...
"It affects the entire industry, and it corrupts a really honorable profession," said Ms. Roberts.
"Crony capitalism corrupts the free market by rewarding political connections over competitive excellence," said Sen.
The important difference, though, is Levinson's acknowledgment that it's not tech that corrupts us, but people.
The big picture: Power corrupts, and societal structures have so far granted men the most power.
They are unaccepting of a governing status quo that squanders their national resources and corrupts politics.
For him, all that matters is the win, even if he compromises and corrupts our democracy.
Presumably, Maclean's wants to show how greed corrupts so deeply that even helpless souls are turned savage.
No, John Oliver's latest Last Week Tonight deep dive doesn't focus on how money corrupts presidential candidates.
The following of Seyed Aghamiri, who says temporal power corrupts, grew after a clerical court defrocked him.
Researchers have long worried about a "resource curse", as oil distorts economies, corrupts politics and fuels wars.
That power corrupts, and that power can be leveraged to amass more power, was a familiar idea.
"This corrupts governance," argues Andrew Wilkie, an independent MP who instigated the attempt at federal regulation in 2012.
They're fantasies of power partly because no matter how hard this type falls, his power never truly corrupts.
And when the President demands that a foreign government investigate his domestic political rivals, he corrupts our elections.
I should also say this: I don't believe the only solution is more women in power, because power corrupts.
They frequently and knowingly accept money from corrupt sources, which then corrupts the products we all buy and use.
Ultimately, both sides want the same thing: better health care for veterans, but once again, politics corrupts the message.
The major theme that I would argue that's been one of the true absolutes in history is that power corrupts.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does this mean a dark ending for Olivia Pope in the final season of Scandal?
And at both the individual and corporate levels, as a company grows more powerful, "power corrupts" remains an inescapable truism.
"This is stupid, vandalizes the night sky and corrupts our view of the cosmos," tweeted Columbia University professor David Kipping.
People are basically good, power corrupts but is not de-corruptible, and there is a lot of work to do.
Even a little power, they say, corrupts — but there's little of that which can be chalked up to human nature.
Gore and his opinion in Citizens United, with its blindness to the reality of how money corrupts our political process.
It's a campfire singalong, a signifier of tactile humanity for a singer who knows how technology both redeems and corrupts.
They would tell you in school if you listened to music you'd go straight to hell because music corrupts your soul.
If MCU morality has taught me anything, it's what British politician Lord Acton figured out centuries ago: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Flipping tiki drinks on their pseudo-Polynesian head, the Beach Goth takes everything great about the mai tai and corrupts it.
But because, like most women, I know firsthand that the power men wield in our society routinely emboldens and corrupts them.
That's because the world more clearly sees the hypocrisy and phoniness that currently corrupts the great philosophy once known as conservatism.
Mr. Comey offers an important lesson on what happens when power corrupts and when bad leaders lead even good people astray.
Over the past month Donald Trump has given us fresh reminders of the unique and exceptional ways he corrupts American life.
Sacrificed by Thanos to gain the Soul Stone, if you didn't realize already, here was proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Indeed, one of the greatest threats Trump poses is that he corrupts and corrodes the absoluteness of truth, facts and science.
What happened was not that power corrupts, but rather, as the biographer Robert Caro would say, what happened is that power revealed.
Jerusalem (CNN)Anti-Semitism and the hatred of minorities "corrupts society," Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned in an exclusive interview with CNN.
Through immersive prose and a riveting plot, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those who gain it, and those resisting its loss.
But as more and more people make money off of mindfulness, I think it corrupts the spirit of the tradition and practice.
Sexual health education in schools is banned in six states in India, with opponents saying it leads to promiscuity and corrupts young people.
Money from the Sinaloa cartel and other drug trafficking organizations allegedly corrupts officials from the municipal level to the upper echelons of government.
"Power corrupts" wasn't just written about madmen who take over governments; it's true for all of us, and it happens in small ways.
We believe the maxim that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we instead celebrate the system and institutions that check the accumulation of power.
No longer will it beckon to those who want to play the dangerous game of thrones, even if it corrupts or kills them.
"Power Corrupts" (or "政権腐敗") is a bonus track on the Japanese version of MASSEDUCTION and Clark posted it to YouTube yesterday.
In the Scottish Pavilion, Rachel Maclean's film Spite Your Face lays bare how greed corrupts so deeply that even helpless souls are turned savage.
"This is a classic example of, 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely,'" he says, before nearly striking himself in his robo-face with his robo-claw.
People's money anxiety — that it's inherently bad, or that it corrupts, or that wanting it makes you greedy — leads to avoiding the topic altogether.
All sex (except for heterosexual marital sex) is considered innately sinful and to be avoided, and participation in it corrupts and contaminates both participants.
It corrupts the agenda, the issues that get the focus and attention, and moves Congress away from the needs and concerns of the voters.
Caspian energy is vital to Europe as an alternative to Russian energy, a primary instrument by which Moscow wins friends and corrupts governments abroad.
The founders said we don't want anybody too power-hungry to get these positions because we know that power corrupts absolutely, like Lord Acton said.
This process not only corrupts and undermines our own democratic and financial institutions, but it also distorts markets and decreases the profitability of American firms.
It also means that if something corrupts the operating system, you&aposre more likely to be able to get all your other files off safely.
As such, it is nearly impossible to manually catch every security flaw or breach before someone with a malicious intent finds out and corrupts the software.
What we got from GOT 7 not only put an end to fate of this season but also corrupts your idea and efforts to season 8.
It attaches itself to otherwise normal files and damages them or corrupts them, and then that file infects other files and so on and so forth.
The real gap is between our subconscious belief that righteous violence can redeem us, even ennoble us, and the chastening truth that violence debases and corrupts.
It's as if the stepmother relationship inevitably corrupts — it is not just an evil woman in the role but a role that turns any woman evil.
Sexual abuse occurs when the illusion of power and dominance corrupts one's sexuality and inflicts the result onto someone else in acts of violence or dominance.
If you let that flourish, then all of a sudden everybody who's paying for reputation service gets an advantage on your platform, which corrupts the platform.
If the ways of venture capital has you thinking there's gotta be another way, then I invite you to read RECONSIDER and Exponential growth devours and corrupts.
This is the heart of Palin's argument, which is intriguingly similar to part of Bernie Sanders's critique of American politics — that big money in politics corrupts democracy.
Now that the oversight board has complete control over Puerto Rico's handling of its bankruptcy, we fear fresh proof of the adage that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
JARRETT: People like Rosenstein and Comey and Strzok and Lisa Page and McCabe and the whole gang are a symbol of corruption and how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
There are plenty of strong, specific themes running through Batman v Superman, about the responsibilities of power, who can be trusted with it, and whether it corrupts absolutely.
This is important to the U.S., since much of Colombia's drug production ends up on our streets, and the money to pay for it corrupts our financial institutions.
" When I was in Philly for the Democratic National Convention, I had a headline that said, "Democrats in Philly: money corrupts politicians, unless we're the ones taking it.
Soul Chronicle features one main story, following the staff-wielding Kilik's quest to destroy Soul Edge, the nefarious blade that corrupts people and seems to emanate raw evil.
But they forgot the oldest cliché in the book, that power corrupts, and they apparently didn't read their history lesson on the rise and fall of corrupt individuals.
"The existential danger to the nation is when the policymaker corrupts the role of the intelligence agencies, which is to provide unbiased and apolitical intelligence to inform policy."
It corrupts the mind a bit, and you end up being completely numb to what's going on on the screen, because your focus is the chair, not the porn.
" Jeff Stein When I was in Philly for the Democratic National Convention, I had a headline that said, "Democrats in Philly: money corrupts politicians, unless we're the ones taking it.
In 1999, he said that there "doesn&apost have to be a crime" to impeach a president; it&aposs enough if the president is "somebody who completely corrupts the office."
What's most interesting about her performance is how it delves deep into the ways Hollywood exploits, corrupts, and depletes its women; the more talented the star, the bigger the trauma.
For him power is inherently evil because it corrupts – a strong perception built over time by the prevalent abuse of power by the feudal and traditional politicians entrenched in our society.
As Rachel ekes out a meager living in the midst of a biotech-filled, post-apocalyptic city, Vandermeer plays out a struggle between its various inhabitants, and examines how power corrupts.
Mr. Obama may have left crucial issues out — like how money corrupts American elections, Mr. Trelles said — but his discourse on issues that matter to the Cuban people went over well.
She finds the link between them in the way money corrupts Timon's understanding of human relations, turning generosity into a kind of usury, extorting the interest of the idle well-born.
"The existential danger to the nation is when the policymaker corrupts the role of the intelligence agencies, which is to provide unbiased and apolitical intelligence to inform policy," Mr. Wise said.
Yet in Bolivia, the argument that a leader like Mr. Morales needs to be allowed to run again is being countered by an adage: That power corrupts those who hold it.
When I asked him about the ethics of his influence, he answered, first, by quoting The Picture of Dorian Gray's Lord Henry, the brilliant high-society layabout who corrupts the titular Dorian.
He has done great work and will undoubtedly be remembered as one of Israel's top prime ministers and central to Israel's emergence as an economic powerhouse and regional power, but power corrupts.
And it'd be more appropriate to the film's themes, which suggest that power corrupts, and that the world is defined by the eternal struggle between humanity and the monsters lurking around its edges.
I think the theme really is power corrupts and that we're at a natural point of the economic cycle where the marketplace needs to be oxygenated and we need to break them up.
We've all heard the power corrupts, that money is the root of all evil, and also that greed is good; we've all ogled the reality-show mansions and indulged in the princess fantasies.
"Every ill in Congress, no matter what it is, it will stem from the fact that money corrupts politicians and politics," she told The New York Times in an interview published in July.
She crosses paths with a man named Charlie Manx (played by Zachary Quinto), who kidnaps children to take them to supernatural place called Christmasland, where he feeds off of their souls and corrupts them.
The Society may be post-apocalyptic, but its story is pretty universal: power corrupts, whether you are fighting for the Iron Throne on Game of Thrones or battling for survival with your fellow youths.
Sexual violence takes one of the most beautiful and fulfilling acts of intimacy between people and corrupts it into a form of brutality from which some never recover and no one remains the same.
While the Mueller investigation considers the issue of obstruction of justice, the DOJ's inspector general should not silently accept the creation of a department of injustice where political partisanship corrupts the rule of law.
The real harm from fake news stems from its rapid spread, especially on social media platforms, so that it undermines trust in all news, corrupts the marketplace of ideas and crowds out real information.
It works because we play along, I mean we get to play along — Liversidge presents us with an opportunity to imagine being the imp who stretches or corrupts the rules of the white cube.
The Society does not harp on where the parents went — it's much more about how power corrupts, toxic masculinity is a poison plaguing our culture, and a strong community is the only means of survival.
Lead single "Castrati Stack" was unveiled this morning, and while I'm pretty sure it doesn't feature any actual castrati, it does make heavy use of soaring, distant vocal parts that Hecker corrupts with rippling noise.
The same one that corrupts American minds so greatly that it convinced otherwise kind people to point to a figure as garish as "Chief Wahoo" and claim it as a vital part of their lives.
We tend to have a host of reasons ready to justify our biases -- the mentally ill are dangerous, immigrants steal jobs, the LGBTQ community corrupts family values, Muslims are terrorists and rural whites are uneducated.
The plot moves fast, crimping in terrifying ways, letting us see the repercussions without the easy vamping that other TV thrillers engage in—and suggesting that the next teen-ager Philip corrupts might be Paige.
Meanwhile, Congress is culpable when its members accept money from the NRA, through a system of legalized bribery that corrupts lawmakers, and prevents them from passing any sensible gun regulations, including gun bans for suspected terrorists.
Ostensibly the story of several school girls and their charismatic teacher, the book explores how the titular Miss Brodie — a canonical fascist and Nazi sympathizer — corrupts her young charges by making them feel special and clever.
Most Democrats believe money corrupts American politics and it'd be better if Bloomberg's fortune were irrelevant, but the system is what it is, and winning, right now, is more important than passing some abstract purity test.
Previously, you said it doesn't have to be a crime if the person in office completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and poses as great danger to our liberty, that is impeachable.
In the House of Commons the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), which I chair, has repeatedly said that dirty money menaces our national security because it corrupts our friends, weakens our alliances and erodes faith in our institutions.
It's a kind of thesis for Soderbergh's career-long question, which seems to be about whether money corrupts personal and social relationships beyond repair, but also whether economic deprivation makes one person better or worse than another.
Moore and Gibbons don't simply explain the pitfalls of trusting superheroes and how power corrupts, but rather seek to show how power and its relationship with fear make superheroes or powerful people so alluring to you and me.
"To get anything done in Washington, we have to address the money and greed that corrupts politicians and prevents progress on issues like gun violence prevention, lowering the cost of prescription drugs and addressing climate change," Gillibrand said.
The FCC has already warned AT&T about providing free data to its customers for DirecTV video streams, and it's possible that the agency could finally crack down on zero rating before it corrupts the entire internet service industry.
" In the same interview, Mr. Dershowitz also said: "It certainly doesn't have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty.
A tradition that believes that power corrupts, and that our goal should be not to gain power but to contain power or limit Presidential power.... This race should be about which candidate will best protect you from an overbearing government.
"To get anything done in Washington, we have to address the money and greed that corrupts politicians and prevents progress on issues like gun violence prevention, lowering the cost of prescription drugs and addressing climate change," Gillibrand said in a statement.
"What we are fighting is clandestine Islamic fundamentalism, which spreads through social media, which does its work out of sight, which preys on weak and unstable minds, and which on our soil corrupts and indoctrinates on a daily basis," Macron said.
"Their ability to influence how others think is enhanced by the awful Citizens United decision, which ignores the vast history of how money corrupts politics, something well documented all the way back to the ancient world," Johnston told Refinery29 via email.
Richard Thompson Ford is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the author of several books, including Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality and The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.
"We paraphrase what has been written about judges, that, above all things, integrity is their lot and proper virtue, the landmark, and he that removes it, corrupts the fountain," he wrote in a court order at the end of July 2009.
The "corporate-athletics complex," as he calls it, corrupts universities, skirts federal tax laws, bullies the IRS, relies heavily on private donors, and sets players up to fail after their sports careers are over by pushing them into academically vapid curriculums.
With Lifetime's upcoming thriller You, inspired by Caroline Kepnes' 2014 book of the same name, Joe takes the New York City rom-com conceits we've come to love and corrupts them with strains of obsession, disturbingly easy to accomplish cyber stalking, and violence.
Lawrence Lessig is Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School, and author of the book, "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It." This is an updated version of an article originally published here.
" Today, Ms. Gillibrand, who has long called for publicly financed campaigns, says that her decade-plus in Washington has taught her that "every ill in Congress, no matter what it is, it will stem from the fact that money corrupts politicians and politics.
Whether it's the epithets tossed her way with sudden abandon ("cunt" and "bitch" from well-heeled visitors) or the crazed mob that corrupts her Crate + Barrel crusade, a liminal space emerges wherein the verity of victimhood and the hilarity of martyrdom compete for our attention.
And, for those of us who feel none of this matters if police brutality and the mass imprisonment of black and brown Americans is not addressed, Clinton vows to shepherd in criminal justice reforms and work to dismantle the systematic racism that corrupts our nation.
"Mark Zuckerberg made clear today that he is not only doubling down on a business model that corrupts our democracy, but also fundamentally lacks an understanding of how civil rights, voter suppression, and racism actually function in this country," the group said in a statement.
" The grand mufti addressed the issue on his call-in show, saying that the veil was "a necessary order and an Islamic creation" and calling on the kingdom's television channels to ban content that "corrupts the religion and the morals and values of society.
But as Tunde observes, "Transfers of power, of course, are rarely smooth" — and as the book counts down the years to a global catastrophe the future will name the Cataclysm, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it, and those resisting its loss.
If you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don't need a technical crime," Dershowitz told Larry King in the 85033 clip played by Wallace on "Fox News Sunday.
"It certainly doesn't have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don't need a technical crime," he said on "Larry King Live" at the time.
Facebook and other social media platforms are ever trying to draw that line, but no such line can ever be drawn because the distinction between speech that helps us to make decisions and speech that corrupts the decision-making process will always be a partisan one.
Regardless of the results on the scoreboard, the state on the map, the year or even the decade, Mr. Sanders has talked with clockwork consistency about an economy rigged against the working class, a campaign finance system that corrupts politicians and a corporate media that obscures the truth.
"A company that corrupts an official to win a contract is not only engaging in a serious criminal offense, but in a serious breach of the right to competition, which merits the highest possible pecuniary sanctions to be applied in our country," Duque said at a ceremony in Bogota.
"It certainly doesn't have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don't need a technical crime," Dershowitz said in 1998, describing the types of actions that qualify as an impeachable offense.
"Greed corrupts," Carson said, describing allegations that Manafort offered Russian oligarchs polling data relating to battleground states and asking whether Mueller agreed such conduct would create a national security risk or whether it was a betrayal of the U.S. "I'm not going to opine on that, I don't have the expertise in that arena," Mueller told Carson.
They laid out a number of scenarios that could exploit vulnerable election infrastructure: names deleted from voter registration databases; e-pollbooks that send voters to the wrong precinct; malware that corrupts ballot-definition files for machines or software that governs vote tabulation, before it's installed in various counties and precincts; or corrupted public-facing websites to announce a false winner on election night.
In new research they plan to present at the USENIX Security conference on Thursday, a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it's possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer.
Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said the push to pass a CR that lasts Past Novebmer is "exactly" the kind of tactic conservatives criticized from ousted Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio) because it corrupts the legislative process.
Morton: The only other thing that I can guess at, because I certainly don't know this for sure, is that Olivia sort of announcing to (Rowan) that she's taking over B613, and the fact that she is the chief of staff for Mellie (Margaret Grant, the current President of the United States on the show) in the White House means that she holds all of the power -- and as we all know, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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