Destructive Quote by William Henry Harrison

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Daniel Schorr

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave…

— Morton Irving Seiden

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

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— John Steinbeck

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

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

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

— Bret Weinstein

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