“freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“...that no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures. — Seneca the Younger 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
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense. — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
“the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.” — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Sometimes we like to think if we had power, that we would be different, and we would be omnipotent, but the truth… — Naomi Ackie 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
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
That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Fear and want are subjective; and poverty is the absence of wealth. If it were promised that from the hour of his… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he… — Ludwig Feuerbach 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
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such… — Frank Herbert 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
“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
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
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
“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
“The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I will not b influenced by what ppl say r do I will seek to establish an identity of my own.I love… — Wk Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer 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
“A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up… — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
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
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
![“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_abrahamism_as-israel-made-the-wants-of-his-national_31284.jpg)
