H. E. Lyonpo Jigme Y. Ihinley Quotes

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.

Politics ruins the character.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

Bad company corrupts good character.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.

Many government officials have very high moral standards at the beginning of their duties, but after a while some officials sway from the right path and easily fall into the temptation of bribery and fraud.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

And you shall take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous:

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

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

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.