Montesquieu Quotes

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

Power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will be ever liable to abuse.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

You can't trust anybody with power.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Suspect power more than vice.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best..

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.