Lucretia Mott Quotes

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

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.'

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

Power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will be ever liable to abuse.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

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

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

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

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

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.