Joss Whedon Quotes

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

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

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

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

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

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

Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!

Suspect power more than vice.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

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

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

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

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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

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

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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

The sudden acquisition of power by those who have never had it before can be intoxicating and we run the risk of petty power games ...

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Power protects power.

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