Power Corrupt Absolutely Quotes

#1. Love won't always be sunshine and roses there is also sadness. - Author: Auliq Ice

#2. No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship. - Author: George R R Martin

#3. Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them. - Author: Fennel Hudson

#4. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. - Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#5. Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas. - Author: Malcolm Gladwell

#6. Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. - Author: Cornel West

#7. I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely. - Author: Charles Kennedy

#8. Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to ... for your sake,I hope not. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#9. We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. - Author: Robert Caro

#10. 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? - Author: Terence Rattigan

#11. Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. - Author: Frank Herbert

#12. Crucified Christ, when He, mindful of mercy, said, Father, - Author: Augustine Of Hippo

#13. His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid. - Author: Payne Best

#14. If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure? - Author: Harry Shearer

#15. If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? - Author: Voltaire