It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert 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
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton 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
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had… — Studs Terkel 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
Sometimes we like to think if we had power, that we would be different, and we would be omnipotent, but the truth… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until… — Steve Ditko Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke 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
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
Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many… The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer 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
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton 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
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“True choice requires that a person have the ability to choose an option and not be prevented from choosing it by any… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Anarcho-syndicalists, also known as “anarchists” or “libertarian syndicalists”, believe that power corrupts and that economic, social and political privilege flows from the… — Nicholas Whitlam Copy Share Image
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
