Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can… — Eric Hoffer 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
“They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.” — Nina Bangs Copy Share Image
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. — Robert Caro 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
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
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
“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
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The president has the power to sign or veto a bill. If he signs it, it becomes law. If he vetoes it,… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
“Lijuan warned Raphael I’d make him a little bit mortal.' 'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you’ve weakened him. You have.'… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“We might already have figured this out from the careful placing of Philippians 2.8b, thanatou de staurou, “even the death of the… — N.T. Wright 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
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
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
“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“As science attained unprecedented power through its ability to predict and control certain limited aspects of nature, it also began to overshadow… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.” — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“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
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