Jim Butcher Quotes

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

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.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Absolute power should never be trusted to man. It has perverted the wisest heads, and corrupted the best hearts in the world. I should be afraid to commit my property, liberty and life to a body of angels for one whole year.

Passion, prejudice, and error, are characteristics of human nature ….. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer.

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

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.