Janeane Garofalo Quotes

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Anything done [in politics] is all right unless you get caught.

Men are never very wise in the exercise of a new power.

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.

Corruption is like a ball of snow; when once set a rolling, it must increase.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

Power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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.

basically, the more power politicians have, the hornier they get