Temptation of Power Quotes

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

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

The abundant paradox of the disreputable Mr. Trump is the way he entices so many others to shred their own reputations. His political existence is practically built on the willingness of the media to rise mechanically, predictably to the bait every time.

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.