“Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency.” - Unknown “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” - Friedrich Nietzsche “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton "Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." - George Bernard Shaw "Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible." - Frank Herbert "It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression." - Eric Hoffer "Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash." - Robert A. Heinlein
