Abuse of Influence Quotes

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

The most powerful person can wind up in jail.

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

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.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

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

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

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.