Bryan Konietzko Quotes

You can't trust anybody with power.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

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

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

The possession of power does not necessarily imply its unrighteous or oppressive use, although it generally awakes suspicion.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

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

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

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

Aristocracy is always cruel.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.