John Chrysostom Quotes

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

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

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

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Suspect power more than vice.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

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

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.