Matthew Henry Quotes

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Authority is quite degrading.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

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

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Suspect power more than vice.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches