Absolute power Quote by Gennifer Albin Download Open image ““...that no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption.”” — Gennifer Albin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolute power Corruption
“They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.” — Nina Bangs Copy Share Image
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupt… superbly.” — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
“When there is power there is corruption, free yourself from these vicissitudes and you will build an empire based on your beliefs.” — Davey Copy Share Image
“We’re all fascinated with corruption, the more glamorous the better. ” — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“You're at my table," Cormac whispers in my ear. "My dream come true," I reply. "I'm sorry?" he says in a voice that dares… — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Cormac and I have an understanding." Erik raises an eyebrow. Clearly he's got the wrong idea. "Don't worry. It's a death-threat thing.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Some people have too large an impact on our lives for us to imagine we can forget them.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“The world might collapse into the whole space and time if you actually managed to act sexy at your current hotness level," he said.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“So first of all, I'm sorry for leaving you. I wish I could prove to you that I fought to stay. ... And finally… — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Take the happiness you can, even if it's only a little.” ― Gennifer Albin, Crewel” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Miss me?" he asks. "It hasn't been that long," I remind him. "I'm sure it's felt like a lifetime," he says, running his eyes… — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Some things don't cange no mattered what's happened. even things that fade with time and distance aren't really ever lost.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Cormac's eyes eyes narrow. "She wasn't half the Spinster you are, Adelice." "I'm half the person she was," I say with a shrug, barely… — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Jost's lips crush into mine, and I reach out without thinking and pull him closer against me. My hand tangles in his hair, and… — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Sometimes we like to think if we had power, that we would be different, and we would be omnipotent, but the truth is absolute… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle in darkness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image