Demonic Quote by G. B. Caird

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man…

— Charles M. Blow

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least…

— Edward Abbey

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

— Horace

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

— John Adams

“Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in…

— Bernard Bailyn

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its…

— John Taylor of Caroline

Religions, which condemn thepleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

— Bertrand Russell

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with…

— Charles Brockden Brown

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke