There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
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.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.