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“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupt… superbly.” — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.” — Andrew Solomon 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
“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said… — Richard Wright 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
