Misuse of Power Quotes

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.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever.

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.

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

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

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

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Corruption in Nigeria is blocking development even though they have all this oil wealth.

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.

I cannot consent to act the part of a mere financier, to become a contriver of taxes, a dealer of loans, a seeker of resources for the purposes of supporting useless baubles, of increasing the number of idle and dissipated members of the community, of fattening contractors, pursers, and agents, and of introducing … patronage, corruption, and rottenness which you so justly execrate.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

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

These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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