Absolute power Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “Power corrupts.Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolute power Absolute power corrupts absolutely Abuse of power Corruption Power Power corrupts Power Corrupts Absolutely
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense. — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton 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
