John Steinbeck Quotes
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
This is a variation of the famous Lord Acton quote {292904}.
John Steinbeck, 1864-1946, Nobel Laureate in Literature, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, 1957
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
- Born: February 27, 1902
- Died: December 20, 1968
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
