There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt 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.