Giulio Andreotti Quotes

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

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

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

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

One cannot hold power and not use it.