N o t e b o o k H a n d o u t 1 ? Teachers? Curriculum Institute 2, Inc. 3 The Nature of Power, Politics, and Government Quotations About Power Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ?Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ?Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887 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. ?Aung San Suu Kyi, ?Freedom from fear? speech, 1990 Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ?Mao Zedong Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon