“When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
— Frederic Bastiat
“Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.”
— Wole Soyinka
“We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.”
— Friedrich Engels
“Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.”
— Huey Long
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
— John Acton
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”
— Barry Goldwater
“Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”
— Unknown
Power And Corruption Quotes
“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
— Jacob Bronowski
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who’ve cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.”
— Alex Jones
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.”
“Calm is a super power.”
— Unknown
“Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.”
— John C. Calhoun
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
— Harry Shearer
“Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Your past is just a story, and once you realize this, It has not power over you.”
— Unknown
“The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed….which hasn’t gotten us anywhere – now’s the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.”
— Babatunde Olatunji
Quotes About Corruption Of Power
“Power doesn’t corrupt. It’s neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It’s the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.”
— Steve Ditko
“I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.”
— Joe Eszterhas
“When the power of love overtakes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“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.”
— Bruce Kent
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
— Frank Herbert
“The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.”
— Ted Nugent
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.”
— Alice Walker
“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.”
— Lord Acton
“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
— John Adams
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
— John F. Kennedy
“If you want to test a man’s character give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??”
— George Deacon
Famous Quotes About Power And Corruption
“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.”
— David Brin
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.”
— Edward V. Long
“The great corrupter of public men is the ego – corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem.”
— Dean Acheson
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Great men are almost always bad men.”
— Lord Acton
“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”
— Adam Smith
“Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win… the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
— Frank Herbert
Government Corruption Quotes
“The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people… The Roman Pontiff cannot and ought not to reconcile himself or agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
— Unknown
“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.”
– Aung San Suu Kyi
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”
– William Pitt
“To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.”
– Rafael Correa
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”
– John F. Lehman, Jr.
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
– John F. Kennedy
“I don’t actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power – when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don’t reflect the balance of political opinion in the country – can corrupt absolutely.”
– Charles Kennedy
“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.”
– David Brin
“We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.”
– Robert Caro
Interesting Quotes About Corruption Of Power
“I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.”
– Dean Ornish
“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.”
– Edward Brooke
“We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.”
– Bret Weinstein
“I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.”
– Jonathan Haidt
“I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.”
– Elia Kazan
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
– John Dalberg-Acton
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
– Harry Shearer
“The story being told in ‘Star Wars’ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.”
– George Lucas
“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
– John Adams
“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“I don’t think ‘Citizen Kane’ stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn’t know that?”
– John Cooper Clarke
Random Quotes About Power Corruption
“It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.”
– Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
“Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.”
– Daniel Schorr
“Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.”
– Eric Hoffer
“It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.”
– Frank Herbert
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??”
– George Deacon
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
– Harry Shearer
“If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?”
– James Moore
“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses”
– John F. Kennedy
“To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.”
– Rafael Correa
Power Quotes On Corruption
“Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.”
– Ted Nelson
“I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I’ve come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.”
– Vinton Cerf
“Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”
– Vinton Cerf
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.”
– William Pitt
“A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.”
– Leonard J. V. Compagno
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