Absolute power Quote by Thomas Sowell

“No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.”

— Anonymous

“Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.”

— Isocrates

“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most…

— Victor Hugo

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.”

— David Christian

“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death…

— Timothy Snyder

“In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.”

— Richard Marsden

“The power to kill does not come without responsibility”

— Kenneth Eade

“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it is more…

— Robert Penn Warren

“The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction.”

— Adler