Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-John
Dalberg-Acton
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
-Adlai E.
Stevenson II
Power corrupts- isn't that what it's for?
-Unattributed
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat, though.
-John Lehman
Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
-Vinton Cerf
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret,
especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-William
Proxmire
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is
violating all his laws.
-John Adams
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no
individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of
everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes
wrong.
-Lewis H. Lapham
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is
empowerment in itself.
-Gloria Steinem
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
-Frederick
Douglass
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of
others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
-Woodrow
Wilson
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of
foresight and raising the haste of action.
-Will Durant
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in
striking true.
-Honoré de Balzac
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position
of power, corrupt power.
-George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of
power.
-John Steinbeck
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
-William Gaddis
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Pity, benevolence, friendship, are things almost unknown in high
stations.
-Edmund Burke
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
-Ralph Nader
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
-Theodore
H. White
Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely.
-Craig
Bruce
Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future.
Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
-Lois
McMaster Bujold
Power is as power does.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Power is founded upon opinion.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.
-Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the
enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them
to be imperious.
-Anthony Trollope
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this
side of the womb.
-Nadine Gordimer
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a
habit.
-Bertrand Russell
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
-Henry Kissinger
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
-Ann
Richards
Power means not having to respond.
-Unattributed
Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to
it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide
themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.
-Louis
L'Amour
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
-Henry
Adams
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No
man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
-Charles
Caleb Colton
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