Quote by John Adams
Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and c

Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams

Other quotes by John Adams

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. – John Adams

Category:
Random
Read Quote

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
power

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. – Charlize Theron

Category:
power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern. – Aeschylus

Category:
power

The term genre eventually becomes pejorative because youre referring to something thats so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. – Christopher Nolan

Category:
power

Random Quotes

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. – Joseph Prince

Category:
power

Close your eyes and see the beauty. – Author Unknown

Category:
Beauty

In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up. – Taylor Swift

Category:
relationship

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. – Rainn Wilson

Category:
Music