Absolute Power Corrupts Quotes
Timeless warnings on power without limits.
This collection builds on the classic warning that power tends to corrupt, and unchecked power corrupts completely. Several speakers apply the idea to their own political experience, treating it as a lesson learned rather than an abstraction. Read more in Absolute Power quotes.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
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One quote flips the idea entirely, asking whether total powerlessness might have the opposite, purifying effect. See Corrupt quotes for related reflections.
