No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“...that no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption.” — Gennifer Albin 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
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupt… superbly.” — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last… — Patrick Leahy 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
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
“no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death.… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief… — Alexis Carrel 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
“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
“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
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
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
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or… — Aria Cunningham 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
“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
“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
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one,… — Ian Mcewan 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
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute… — Boyd Rice 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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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