"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
― Reinhold Niebuhr
Topic(s):
Power
More From Reinhold Niebuhr
- "Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
- "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
- "Forgiveness is the final form of love."
More In Power
- "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain."― Susan B. Anthony
- "All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."― Ronald Reagan
- "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."― John Stuart Mill