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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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'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
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
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
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
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
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
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project.… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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