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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
— Chinua Achebe
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
— Will Durant
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
— John F. Lehman Jr.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
— Adlai Stevenson I
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
— Arthur Koestler
Power corrupts the best of men.Power destroys the worst of men.
Corrupt nations end up in turmoil.
Corrupt rulers end up in Hell. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
— Daniel Schorr
All power corrupts, but we need electricity
— Diana Wynne Jones
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
— P.D. James
Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.
— Masha Du Toit
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutelyfrom Steelheart (Reckoners #1)
by Brandon Sanderson — Brandon Sanderson
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
— William Pitt
It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.
— Norman Spinrad
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
— Eric Hoffer
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
— Barbara Tuchman
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
— Clint Eastwood
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
— Immanuel Kant
unchecked power corrupts.
— Edward Gibbon
All power corrupts but some must govern.
— John Le Carre
