Absolute power Quote by John Emerich Edward Dalberg 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,…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

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

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

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

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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

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

“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

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

“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