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Absolute Power Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others…
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
- 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…
- 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.…
- The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies…
- Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
More Absolute Power Quotes
- Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief… — Alexis Carrel
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer
- Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right… — Barry Goldwater
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton
- 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
- The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding… — Harry Reid
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the… — David Brinkley