In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
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 does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.