Bertrand Russell Quotes

You can't trust anybody with power.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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.

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.

Suspect power more than vice.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will be ever liable to abuse.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others

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.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

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

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

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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

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