#power corrupts

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. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. ↗

— John F. Lehman, Jr.

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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