No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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.
Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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