"Great men are almost always bad men." — Lord Acton
"Great men are almost always bad men."
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Lord Acton
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95 Quotes by Lord Acton
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest…
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed…
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm…
— Albert Camus
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
— Roger Angell
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
— John Hospers
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Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and…
— Joyce Meyer
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
— Jean Cocteau
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
— Luc de Clapiers
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