Quotes About Corruption

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

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

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

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.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.