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
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to… — Matthew A. Petti Copy Share Image
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. — Clint Eastwood 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
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
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
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
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
Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any… — Dennis Lehane 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
Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Immortality and absolute power do not mix. The longer we live, the more we believe the conclusions we have drawn over time… — David Kersten Copy Share Image
“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It has been the one song of those who thirst after absolute power that the interest of the state requires that its… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Creation, whether it's writing, painting or whatever, is essentially despotic and autocratic in nature, because it's the work of one mind and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it, the Senate sessions had been quieting for a while. The boisterous beginnings she remembered as a tiny… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“I had known Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, for nearly twenty years. He was a career Air Force officer who had risen… — Hillary Rodham Clinton 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
For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the… — Rafael Benitez Copy Share Image
“Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image