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Absolute Power Corrupts Quotes

Timeless warnings on power without limits.

This collection builds on the classic warning that power tends to corrupt, and unchecked power corrupts completely. Several speakers apply the idea to their own political experience, treating it as a lesson learned rather than an abstraction. Read more in Absolute Power quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Bad
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Nov 07, 2020

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Quotes by Rafael Correa

Corrupt
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Nov 07, 2020

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Harry Shearer

General
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Nov 07, 2020

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

Quotes by Edward Brooke

One quote flips the idea entirely, asking whether total powerlessness might have the opposite, purifying effect. See Corrupt quotes for related reflections.

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