Absolute power Quote by Lord Acton

“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

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them…

— Benjamin Constant

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

— Lord Acton

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

— George Bernard Shaw

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man…

— Terence Rattigan

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control.…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

Even great men can be corrupted

— J. Edgar Hoover

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

— Henry Latham Doherty

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

— William Gaddis

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

— Anonymous

Great men are almost always bad men.

— Anonymous