Quotes by Power Corrupts Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. Adlai Stevenson I power-corruptspowerwork If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. Arthur Koestler power-corruptsisraelway It is not power that corrupts but fear. Aung San Suu Kyi corrupt-powerwielding-powerpower-corrupts With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. Clint Eastwood power-corruptsofficepeople Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. Daniel Schorr power-corruptssecrecysecret The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. Eric Hoffer absolute-powerinhumanitypower-corrupts 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 power-corruptsmagnetwar If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt? James Moore power-corruptsintelligencedoe All power corrupts but some must govern. John le Carre power-corrupts 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 power-corruptslittlesmen Great men are almost always bad men. Lord Acton corrupt-powerpower-corruptsmen 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 power-corruptsphilosophythinking 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 absolute-powerpower-corruptsassuming Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro corrupt-powerpower-corruptsbelieve Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely. Ted Nelson power-corruptsobsoletecomputer 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 power-corruptscountryfirsts I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely. Vinton Cerf power-corruptsgivingbelieve Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. Vinton Cerf powerpointpower-corrupts Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham power-corruptsendslaw Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John F. Lehman, Jr. corruptspower-corruptskindpower12»
