Famous quotes containing the words power and/or corrupts:
“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Association with other people corrupts our character Mespecially when we have none.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)