Corrupt Power Quotes

The devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.

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

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

The military pork barrel spreads special privilege far beyond the confines of the arms contractors; it directly creates at least two million industrial jobs, every holder of which is all too dependent for his well-being on the well-being of the party oligarchs and the success of their corrupt policies. By virtue of the military budget, a large number of ordinary citizens have been given a direct stake in corrupt power.

It seems to me virtually any ideology, no matter how intrinsically benign, can be used to oppress. And any group with power, no matter how well-meaning, ultimately corrupts and ends up exploiting its advantage to some extent.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

Around him are the riffraff of thick-skinned party leaders. He plays off the half-humans with favours. Forging edict after edict as if they were horseshoes- Shoots some in the forehead, others in the chest, the eye, the groin. Everyday he has an execution -- for our Broadchested Georgian it's like picking raspberries

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.