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“Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.”

“Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.”

Government Democracy Absolutes Majority Curb Absolute Power Federalism Central Government

Author:Lord Acton

“It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?”

Men Firsts Has Beens Said Powerful Power Absolutes Absolute Power Power Corrupts Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Author:Terence Rattigan

“The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.”

Ifs Real States Christian Law Humanity Sleep Results Crime Pure Absolutes Awake Abandoned Framework Identical Theological Opium Real Power Absolute Power

Author:Bruno Bauer

“Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.”

Men Trying Form Moral Authority Illusion Absolutes Cherish Rulers Prerogative Absolute Power Moral Authority

Book:The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Source: The Old Regime and the French Revolution

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Ifs Men Way Government Accepting Power Judging Kings Absolutes Pope Presumption Canon Absolute Power Power Corrupts Corrupt Power Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Author:Lord Acton

“Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others call it truth. Still others convert nature into a philosophy by which they attempt to sound its deepest truth. Such attempts to define the power of nature are no more than striving to escape its effects.”

People World Stills Philosophy Sound Effects Absolutes Praise Strive Absolute Power Power Of Nature

Author:Koichi Tohei

“Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."”

People Doe Waiting Powerful Capacity Absolutes Oneself Deny Uncertainty Reasonable Offering Anticipation Unpredictable Scope Absolute Power

Book:In Sierra Leone

Source: In Sierra Leone

“The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.”

Fighting History Cases Mankind Universal Absolutes Conquest Prestige Absolute Power

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.”

Men Masters Relation Absolutes Fellows Assuming Guilty Fellow Man Servitude Absolute Power

Book:Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

“You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.”

Kindness Absolutes Power To Change Absolute Power

Author:Curt Mega

“Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.”

Absolutes Powerlessness Absolute Power

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.”

Men Heart Spirit Next Winning Loses Break Power Achieve Proud One Day Absolutes Finals Vivid Absolute Power

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Use Belief President Power Support Evidence Absolutes Crisis Soviet Missiles Readiness Absolute Power Power Corrupts Abel Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Author:Lord Acton

“When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.”

Reality Loses Power Absolutes Contact Absolute Power

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.”

World Doe Lasts Nations Money Democracy Masters Abuse Absolutes Slave Prepared Injustice Extremes Socialism Oppression Absolute Power Clemency Injustice And Oppression

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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