Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

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

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.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

... all of our human experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

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

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

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

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

Feelings of marginalization and cries of separation are symptomatic of countries where rulers find power sweet and intoxicating, where power is coveted, and when acquired, painstakingly guarded.

If you give human beings power over others, their natural tendency is to be fascists.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In a free government, the few, finding their schemes and views of interest borne down by the many, to gain the power they cannot constitutionally obtain, always endeavor to get it by cunning and corruption, conscious at the same time that usurpation, when once begun, the safety of the usurper consists only in grasping the whole.

Overly concentrated power, whether in public, private or even in civic hands is an invitation to abuse.

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

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.