Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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.
The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.