It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James 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
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Blatantly, the power which women relish in 'Game of Thrones' corrupts and corrodes exactly as it would their male counterparts. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But… — Eric Hoffer 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
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such… — Frank Herbert 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
