Nipsey Hussle Quotes

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.

The sudden acquisition of power by those who have never had it before can be intoxicating and we run the risk of petty power games ...

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

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

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

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

You can't trust anybody with power.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

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

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

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

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

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

If you use power too loosely, you lose power.

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

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

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

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

Power without abuse loses its charm.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.