“Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.” — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan Copy Share Image
Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Master of the universe but notof myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton 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
As a result of the 'hung' election of November 1932. Hitler set in motion the first of the 9 steps he would… — William Waller 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
“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
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
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
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
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Over the centuries, the Miriams and the Bernies and the millions like them were the fonts of free and civil societies, which… — Dean Koontz 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
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
“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but… — Mark Pellegrino 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.” — Dean Koontz 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 deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_abrahamism_as-israel-made-the-wants-of-his-national_31284.jpg)
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