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Abuse of power5 quotes
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. — Lord Acton · 1887Nature has left this Tincture in the Blood,
That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd. — Daniel Defoe · 1701The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. — C. Northcote Parkinson · 1958The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. — Edmund Burke · 1771The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. — Henry Clay · 1834Power3 quotes
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. — Lord Acton · 1887The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. — Edmund Burke · 1771The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. — Henry Clay · 1834Corruption1 quote
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. — Lord Acton · 1887Great men1 quote
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. — Lord Acton · 1887Human nature1 quote
Nature has left this Tincture in the Blood,
That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd. — Daniel Defoe · 1701Self-importance1 quote
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. — C. Northcote Parkinson · 1958Tyranny1 quote
Nature has left this Tincture in the Blood,
That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd. — Daniel Defoe · 1701