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Great men are almost always bad men.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don’t think that the old saw about ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

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.

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

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.