"There is no evidence to support the belief……" — Lord Acton
"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. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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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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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of…
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The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created.…
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He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.
— Charles Hermite
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I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel…
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Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister…
— Louise Mensch
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the…
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have…
— Park Chan-wook
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Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which…
— Pope John XXIII
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No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young…
— G. H. Hardy
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We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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