Synonyms for corrupts
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   blights

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1. John Lehman:

   Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

2. Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva:

   All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

3. Susan LaTourette:

   I think Washington corrupts people, he was a wonderful husband and father. The best I ever saw, until he went there. I told him I was trying to get him out of the dark side — all that power and greed and people kissing up to them all the time. Now he’s one of them. All they care about is getting reelected. I hate them all.

4. John Ernst Steinbeck:

   Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

5. John Steinbeck:

   Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.