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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Great men are almost always bad men.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

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

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

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.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.

They ordered the exterminationof all minds they couldn't control