Pope Francis Quotes

You can't trust anybody with power.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Suspect power more than vice.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

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

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

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