Bill Maher Quotes

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

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.

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

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

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

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

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

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

If you give human beings power over others, their natural tendency is to be fascists.

Force always attracts men of low morality ... tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

It is the steady abuse of power in other governments which renders that of opposition always the popular party.

While our traditional authority has always been respected, sadly at times, it has also been abused.

The possession of power does not necessarily imply its unrighteous or oppressive use, although it generally awakes suspicion.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.