Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or per...

ArchEnemy

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Freedom from Fear

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is alw...

Robert Caro

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Rafael Correa

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Love

One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians acc...

Michel Templet

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John F. Lehman, Jr.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt

Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.

Blood of the Lamb: A Novel of Secrets

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

Anonymus

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

George Bernard Shaw

One must always be careful, for the art of shamanism is fueled by the power of the will, interacting with the power of the plants. And it seems all too easy for some shamans to warp that power to dark ends, to the 'shamachismo' that can drive them to...

Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

George Deacon

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

William Gaddis

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

John Steinbeck