Jim Carrey Quotes

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek 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.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

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

Suspect power more than vice.

The Arrogance of Power

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

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

… the tools of despotism and corruption

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.