Absolute Power Quotes

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Absolute power demoralizes.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

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

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.

The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last thing they wanted was to be ruled by a temporary king with absolute powers for four years.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.