Absolute Power Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness. — Curt Mega
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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
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
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
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
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
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. — Eric Hoffer

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