Abuse of Privilege Quotes

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

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

Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Since the origin of the world there has never been a king—even if you were to select the very best—who did not in some measure abuse his authority…

We should submit to careful examination and review a system which places such vast powers for evil in the hands of irresponsible individuals and which makes the possession of land not a trust but a means of extortion and exaction.

Can we wonder that all has gone ill with us when our love of office survives in our very ruin?

The most powerful person can wind up in jail.

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

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

The Arrogance of Power

It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

We have long noted Pelosi's abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel.

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

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

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

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

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.