Bad Quote by Stanley A. McChrystal

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only…

— Howard Nemerov

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

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities,…

— Charles Kennedy

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

— William Gaddis

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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

— Adlai Stevenson I

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

— Bret Weinstein

“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

“One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is…

— Michel Templet

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

All power corrupts but some must govern.

— John le Carre

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

— George Bernard Shaw