“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupt… superbly.” — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have… — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or… — Aria Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“When, over the following months, Minta Randall found that Eustace apparently reciprocated her profoundest and most secret feelings, she thought she had… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I let the monster take over. My lips moved and I spoke the words I’d heard before, words that would unlock the… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Steve: This is it. I have absolute power. (Over intercom) Doris, could you please send in our high school mascot? (Man dressed… — American Dad Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one's environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but… — Heinrich A. Rommen Copy Share Image
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
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