Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

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

We must take, and continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise nor become complacent about particular degrees of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimized.

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

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

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces

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

… J. Edgar Hoover, whom you should trust as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

He who makes another powerful ruins himself.

In certain corrupt conditions of a State, conspicuous success is more dangerous than failure.

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

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

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

Success is sweet and treacherous.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Success is beautiful and dangerous.