Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt 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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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 is kind of neat.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Power is always a corrupting influence.