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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
— Unknown Author
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and…
— Lord Acton
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Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from…
— Jacques Barzun
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The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power…
— Frank Herbert
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
— Harry Shearer
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
— Edmund Wilson
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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I…
— Robert Caro
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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
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
— Vinton Cerf
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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…
— Terence Rattigan
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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…
— Lord Acton
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