Aung San Suu Kyi — "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who …"
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.
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Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate (1991) who spent 15 years under house arrest before her party's 2015 election win.
Closely associated with
Václav Havel (Czech dissident-turned-president) and Nelson Mandela (the moral-leader template she was often compared to).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar military commander-in-chief — deposed Suu Kyi in the 2021 coup and continues to detain her — the institutional military power her movement spent decades resisting.