Absolute power Quote by George Orwell

“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

— Edmund Burke

“As long as you allow your intellectual force to pour out into the absolute, it moves in eddies, its power is dissipated, it is…

— Jacques Rivière

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“the ease with which the big crises can wipe out the small ones that seemed so critical just a moment before. All of our…

— Arianna Huffington

“Never underestimate the power of your mind. Whether positive or negative thoughts, that power will reveal itself in a matter of time.”

— Corletia Dunlap Banks

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny;…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Perhaps, the Providence decided That human mind is still too weak To master everything provided A priori; it’s doomed to seek For any sound…

— T.K. Varenko

“The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.”

— Rajeev Kurapati

“Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again…

— Blaise Tshibwabwa

“The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naive and flawed…

— Timothy Snyder