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Bad Quotes by Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still…
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of…
- Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
- False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social…
- Great men are almost always bad men.
- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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