Behinds Quote by Louis L'Amour

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

— William Gaddis

It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before…

— Frank Beddor

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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

“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

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

— Daniel Schorr

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