Dmitry I. Pisarev Quotes

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

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

It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.

Since the origin of the world there has never been a king—even if you were to select the very best—who did not in some measure abuse his authority…

Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

Power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

You can't trust anybody with power.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

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.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.