Absolute Power Quotes
70 quotes by 49 authors
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of…
— Lord Acton
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must…
— Terence Rattigan
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The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power,…
— Bruno Bauer
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Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.…
— Lord Acton
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Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others…
— Koichi Tohei
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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself…
— Michael Jackson
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Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength.…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute…
— Albert Camus
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God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation…
— Gerrit Smith
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You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.
— Curt Mega
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Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's…
— Eric Hoffer
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Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
— Eric Hoffer
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There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys…
— Lord Acton
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to…
— Edward Gibbon
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If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in…
— Harry Reid
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
— Eric Hoffer
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