Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions. — Anonymous 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
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
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“Power is pure undiluted energy which is incapable of corrupting itself. So where got we this 'that power corrupts men'? We got… — Paul Bamikole 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
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. — Eric Hoffer 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
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr 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 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
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
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
“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
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men… — Oswald Mosley 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
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of… — Louis L'Amour 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
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