Power Corrupts Quotes

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Great men are almost always bad men.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

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

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

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

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

All power corrupts but some must govern.