What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
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.
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.