Influence Quote by Charles Dance

Power is always a corrupting influence.

— Charles Dance

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

— William Gaddis

It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before…

— Frank Beddor

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to…

— Frank Herbert

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely

— Bertrand Russell

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away…

— Edmund Burke

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray…

— Louis L'Amour

“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract…

— Frank Herbert

Power people are generally threatened by authority people...

— James Hunter