Absolutes Quote by William Lyon Phelps

We are not intoxicated by power. We are concerned about the betterment of the poor, marginalised, oppressed, farmers, women, those living in villages, and…

— Yogi Adityanath

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its…

— John Taylor of Caroline

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

— Socrates

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it.

— William Pitt

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

— Edmund Burke

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

— Charley Reese

Power is intoxicating.

— Sho Baraka

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

— Ludwig von Mises

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny…

— William Pitt

“There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for…

— Albert Meltzer