Billy Dee Williams Quotes

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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

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

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

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 what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

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

Everybody in Washington works for me.

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

Suspect power more than vice.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power won't change me.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.