Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
All power corrupts but some must govern.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.