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

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

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

I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.