Neil Jackson Quotes

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

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.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

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

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

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

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

Overly concentrated power, whether in public, private or even in civic hands is an invitation to abuse.

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

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

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

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

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 always a corrupting influence.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Ignorant power comes in the end to the same thing as wicked power; it makes misery.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

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

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

More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.