Quotes About Power Corrupting

#1. There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#2. Power is always a corrupting influence.

Charles Dance

#3. When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Aubrey Plaza

#4. You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.

Peggy Webb

#5. Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Derrick A. Bell

#6. If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

Joseph Goldstein

#7. We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

Garrison Keillor

#8. Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

John Pilger

#9. Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't get to be Corvina anymore. Now you're Corvina 2.0 - a dubious upgrade.

Robin Sloan

#10. We overestimate the power of people who become cogs in giant organizations. The fact that they become cogs actually limits what they can do ... There's something very corrupting that happens to people who think they're going to work from inside a corrupt system.

Howard Zinn

#11. Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Daniel Schorr

#12. absolute power is corrupting

Richard Wright

#13. My feeling on rain is that it should only occur at night when people are sleeping. At night, rain is cozy. During the day, rain is a pain in the gumpy.

Janet Evanovich

#14. I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

Fiona Apple

#15. You know what your problem is?" I ask him.
"Yes. I have a daughter who insists she knows everything."
"That's not your problem, Aba. That's your blessing.

Simone Elkeles

#16. There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

#17. I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Megan Boone

#18. The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Francois Mauriac

#19. This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

Steve Wynn

#20. To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.

Darren Mew