Absolutism Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

— John C. Calhoun

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are…

— George Orwell

“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on…

— Alexander Berkman

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

— Robert Shea

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a…

— Tony Blair

The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of the imperium,…

— Julius Evola

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

— Rich Lowry

All power is inherent in the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

— Michael Ignatieff

The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.

— George Orwell

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

— Henry Giroux