Power Doesn't Corrupt Quotes & Sayings

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. — William Gaddis

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. — Steve Ditko

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character. — Orrin Woodward

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. — Robert Caro

If we make a union in these fields, is there anything we can do to ensure it doesn't become corrupt? Or that later it doesn't only look after the people who work here, we just look after our own, and everyone else can fend for themselves? We need to fight for ourselves, here and now, but we also need changes so large and impossible they encompass the entire world. — Jacob Wren

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism. — Jack McDevitt