Hank Green Quotes

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

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

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.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

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.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

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

The possession of power does not necessarily imply its unrighteous or oppressive use, although it generally awakes suspicion.

Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer.

The most powerful person can wind up in jail.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

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

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim, denounces it, and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.