To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
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.
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
Great men are almost always bad men.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
All power corrupts but some must govern.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.