"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power." — Robert Shea
"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power."
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Robert Shea
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26 Quotes by Robert Shea
Robert Shea has 26 quotes on this site.
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest…
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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping…
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to…
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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
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You are attached to what you attack.
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition…
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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along…
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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which…
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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals,…
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More Absolute Quotes
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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