Tacitus Quotes

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

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

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

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

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

There were also very great robberies and murder of our principal men. This was done in pretense indeed for the public welfare, but in reality for the hopes of gain to themselves

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

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

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

You can't trust anybody with power.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

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

I'm interested in villainy.

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.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.