Mark Steyn Quotes

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Politics is the art of dominating men.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

Power protects power.

Suspect power more than vice.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it