Power And Corruption Quotes

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

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.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.