Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.