If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
They say power corrupts, but most of the time it's actually faulty storage media.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are...
Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think ...
Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camoufl...
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.
