Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Quotes by George Deacon, Harry Shearer, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Lord Acton, Rafael Correa, Robert Caro and many others.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
Great men are almost always bad men.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President’s John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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 doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
You know, ‘power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’? It’s the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
It’s very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don’t agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
