Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
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.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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 is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.