Awful Quote by Chinua Achebe

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and…

— Jane Jacobs

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want…

— David Morrissey

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

— Bret Weinstein

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

— Anonymous

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

— Adlai Stevenson I

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 is always a corrupting influence.

— Charles Dance

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

— William Gaddis

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

— Joe Eszterhas