Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely… — Suzanne La Follette 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
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
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
Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has… — Mohamed ElBaradei 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
“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
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages… — George Washington 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
Steve: This is it. I have absolute power. (Over intercom) Doris, could you please send in our high school mascot? (Man dressed… — American Dad Copy Share Image
“I let the monster take over. My lips moved and I spoke the words I’d heard before, words that would unlock the… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but… — Heinrich A. Rommen Copy Share Image
“He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one's environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
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
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
“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
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's… — Gerrit Smith 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
The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
“Absolute power could, as its defenders argued, be enlightened, beneficial, and benign. To liberals that was not enough. Absolute power could also… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
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