Absolute power corrupts absolutely Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolute power corrupts absolutely Corrupt power Heresy Heresy Office Inspirational Office Office Sanctifies Political Power corrupts Sanctifies Sanctifies Holder Sanctify Worse Heresy
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“...heresy was often perceived by the Church as a financial or political threat rather than merely a theological one.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must… — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Heresy: Changing the context of the Word, twisting Scripture in order to control and dominate people by intimidating them, using the Word to obtain… — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics… — R. C. Sproul 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
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
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
