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
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert 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
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense. — Bret Weinstein 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
It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell 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
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
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often… — Frank Beddor 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 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
“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
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
“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
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
