Serge Lang Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

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

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

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

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

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

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.

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

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.