Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Great men are almost always bad men.

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

Power tends to corrupt;
absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned — the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

But if the thing is criminal, if, for instance, it is a license to commit adultery, the person who authorises the act shares the guilt of the person who commits it.

A state in which the law is powerless to punish a thief, or in which society is unable to restrict the action of the government, are equally opposed to the notion of polity.