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
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
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
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Power corrupts: What we mean by this is that, in the absence of language enforced guarantees (i.e. restrictions on the power of… — Peter Mark Ben Mosele Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn't pay..so if you keep reading, you'll go… — Books and music. Facebook Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be… — Sam Cabot Copy Share Image
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image