“Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás.”

Brave New World

Original: «Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority».
Fuente: Hill, Roland. Lord Acton. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 9780300129809. Página 300. https://books.google.es/books?id=K6haxnN0GX8C&pg=PA300&dq=Power+tends+to+corrupt,+and+absolute+power+corrupts+absolutely.+Great+men+are+almost+always+bad+men.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf7fzC_uPfAhUF0uAKHaVXCm4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Power%20tends%20to%20corrupt%2C%20and%20absolute%20power%20corrupts%20absolutely.%20Great%20men%20are%20almost%20always%20bad%20men.%20Lord%20Acton&f=false

Fuente: Mi cuarto a espadas. Francisco Ayala. Edición reimpresa. Editorial El País, 1976. ISBN 9788403910096. Página 70.

Original: «The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain».
Fuente: Citado en Edlin, Craig A. Practical Career Advice for a Turbulent Working World. Editorial AuthorHouse, 2010. ISBN 9781452072500. p. 74.