Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
When you're used to having power, if you're not careful & prayerful you'll abuse & even compromise your character to keep it. Power corrupts! — Nushra Copy Share Image
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.” — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather,… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
“You wouldn’t know what it’s like to grow up privileged and powerful. It’s intoxicating. Watching how people defer to you, and to… — Robert Bryndza Copy Share Image
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupt… superbly.” — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that? — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely. — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
What worries me most about Trump, other than all of the other crazy things, is that I believe that he wants power… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great… — Leonard J. V. Compagno Copy Share Image
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
“They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.” — Nina Bangs Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase,… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
