Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

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

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

This administration seems intent on accumulating unchecked power.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Absolute power should never be trusted to man. It has perverted the wisest heads, and corrupted the best hearts in the world. I should be afraid to commit my property, liberty and life to a body of angels for one whole year.

... a consolidation of unchecked and despotic power in the House of Representatives ...

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

The United States was famously founded as a government of limited powers; suspicion of concentrated private power has surged in periodic waves throughout its history.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

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.

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.

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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 disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

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

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