Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.” — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive… — Charles Kennedy 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
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
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle… — Anonymous 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
Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“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
“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
“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
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