Exploitation of Power Quotes

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

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

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

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

The People will have unfounded Power. And the People are extremely addicted to Corruption and Venality, as well as the Great. I am not without Apprehensions from this Quarter.

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

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Whenever any one of them [world leaders] hath striven to improve its country’s condition, his motive hath been his own gain

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.