Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes

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.

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

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

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

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

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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.

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

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

It is the steady abuse of power in other governments which renders that of opposition always the popular party.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

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

It is the curse of the Labor movement that, as soon as it has acquired a certain “power,” it seeks to enlarge this power by unprincipled means. Social-Democracy also was originally “pure” in almost all countries. Most Social-patriots of today were real Marxists. By Marxist propaganda the masses were won, and as soon as the party gained “power,” they [the principled means] were abandoned.

basically, the more power politicians have, the hornier they get

You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.