But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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