Affair Quote by Frank Herbert

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

— Frank Herbert

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

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who…

— Gregory Bateson

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

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

— Barbara Tuchman

All power corrupts but some must govern.

— John le Carre

Power is always a corrupting influence.

— Charles Dance

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

— John Steinbeck

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

— Frank Herbert

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

— Gary Hamel

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

— William Gaddis