Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

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

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

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

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

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.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

It all boils down to power and money.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Power protects power.

I can buy any man in the world.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.