Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician, Activist
"It is not power that corrupts but fear."
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Power Corrupts
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."
Adlai Stevenson I
Politician
"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely."
Ted Nelson
Computer Scientist
"Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely."
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"With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts."
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