Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Master of the universe but notof myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“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
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
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
Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“God's holiness is more than just separateness. His holiness is also transcendent. The word transcendence means literally "to climb across." It is… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Indeed, they embraced a tradition that was notorious for its incompatibility with American law and liberty. The connection between absolute and administrative… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat 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
“We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“In sum, part I has shown that administrative law revives prerogative legislation, together with the prerogative of suspending and dispensing with law—thus… — Philip Hamburger 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
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer 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
“I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
