Character Quote by John Taylor of Caroline

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

— Frank Herbert

“Sometimes great power brings out the worst in us, and unfortunately, it isn't until people are given it that we see the true shades…

— Barbara Kloss

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

— Lord Acton

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

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

— Arthur Koestler

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

“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

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

“In my experience' I say, 'power does not bring out the best in people. To the contrary, it tends to be corrupting.”

— Lucy Weston