Authority Quote by John Adams

“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

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

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

'Line Of Duty,' for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in…

— Jed Mercurio

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't…

— Charles Dance

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power…

— Theodore Bikel

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

— Masha Gessen

Corruption spreads faster than cancer among the people in power and position; it strengthens itself by emergence of unholy alliances and criminal gangs. In…

— T Joseph Benziger

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and…

— Sigmund Freud

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms…

— Maria Konnikova

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,

— James MacGregor Burns