“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”
William Pitt the younger
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."”
Ambrose Bierce
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of act”
Benjamin Franklin
“A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them”
Charles Caleb Colton
“And leave Me and the rejecters, the possessors of ease and plenty, and respite them a little.”
quran
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”
