Irvine Welsh Quotes

Overly concentrated power, whether in public, private or even in civic hands is an invitation to abuse.

You can't trust anybody with power.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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.

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

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

There are no necessary evils in government. It's evils exist only in its abuses.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

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

In a free government, the few, finding their schemes and views of interest borne down by the many, to gain the power they cannot constitutionally obtain, always endeavor to get it by cunning and corruption, conscious at the same time that usurpation, when once begun, the safety of the usurper consists only in grasping the whole.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

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

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.