Power is always a corrupting influence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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 does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.