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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Authors on Power Corrupts Quotes: Vinton Cerf Adlai Stevenson I Leonard J. V. Compagno Ted Nelson Clint Eastwood James Moore Arthur Koestler Mark Pellegrino Thomas Jefferson Aung San Suu Kyi John le Carre Eric Hoffer Robert Caro William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Lord Acton Daniel Schorr Frank Herbert Rafael Correa
2.
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.
Thomas Jefferson

3.
Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord Acton

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

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

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

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

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

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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Vinton Cerf

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

11.
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.
Mark Pellegrino

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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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

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Adlai Stevenson I

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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
Ted Nelson

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

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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.
Leonard J. V. Compagno

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

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All power corrupts but some must govern.
John le Carre