Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?

This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834-1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a...

See British Historian Lord Acton.

It simply means that a person who has power tends to use it too much, which further increases their power..

An observation that a person's sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lord Acton