Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt 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.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.