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Absolute power demoralizes.
Lord Acton /
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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.
Robert Shea /
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Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
Rudolph Rummel / Author
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John F. Lehman, Jr. /
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Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.
Marie Lu / Author
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton /
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Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter / Professor
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
Eric Hoffer / Philosopher
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Power Corrupts
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer / Actor
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Political
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Absolute
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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille / Dramatist
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Masters
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Master
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
Garrison Keillor / Author
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People
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
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Found
Massachusetts
Power Corrupts
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Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
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Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
Boyd Rice / Musician
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Absolute
Power Exercise People
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
Nawal El Saadawi / Writer
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Arab World
Code
Egypt
Husband
Polygamy
World
Absolute
Arab
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa / President Of Ecuador
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Assuming
Experiments
Power Corrupts
Absolute
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Anybody
Assume
Bad
Those
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Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.
Rafael Benitez / Football Manager
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Budget
Executive
Manager
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer / Philosopher
Power
Government
Absolute Power
Lying
Possession
Prophecy
Absolute
Also
True
Lie
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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David Brinkley / Journalist
Politics
Absolute Power
Journalism
Political
Absolute
Politicians
Numerous
Press
Seized
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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.
Gerrit Smith / American Politician
Men
Absolute Power
Assuming
Fellow Man
Guilty
Relation
Servitude
Absolute
Approve
Master
Towards
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
Alexis Carrel / Surgeon
Power
Absolute Power
Belief
Believe
Clear
Desire
Human Condition
Intellectual
Logic
Omnipotence
Pride
Renounce
Thinking
Absolute
Condition
Rise
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What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
Koren Zailckas / Writer
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Scary
Absolute
Controlling
Old Enough
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The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last thing they wanted was to be ruled by a temporary king with absolute powers for four years.
Patrick Leahy / United States Senator
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Our Founding Fathers
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama / 44Th U.s. President
Government
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Founders
Senate
Two
Worry
Absolute
Chambers
Essentially
Intended
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I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
Sarah Silverman / Comedian
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Arrogant
Ignorant
Lines
Opposites
Thinking
Absolute
Opposite
Blurred
Transcends
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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.
Charles Kennedy / British Politician
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Balance
Massive
Opinion
Parliamentary
Political
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Absolute
Actually
Corrupt
Corrupts
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The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Government
Absolute Power
Long
Problem
Putin
Russia
Because
Power Government Always
Absolute
Anyone
Been
Corrupt
Even
Per
The Problem With
Vladimir Putin
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Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.
Mohamed Elbaradei / Diplomat
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Convenient
Interpretation
Islam
Prophet
Absolute
Accountable
Hijacked
Historically
Ruler
Such A Way
Whoever
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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
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Divine
Foundation
Marble
Spread
Stones
Structure
Absolute
Broad
Invest
Hierarchies
Lesser
Ranks
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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John Dalberg-Acton /
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Authority
Choices
Democracy
Depends
Fate
Legality
Principles
Sovereignty
Tradition
Absolute
Power Government Democracy
Opposite
Power Government People
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Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.
Brian Stableford / Fiction Writer
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Absolute
Diminished
Suppressed
Thankfully
Weighted
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The president has the power to sign or veto a bill. If he signs it, it becomes law. If he vetoes it, it does not become law. That's pretty much an absolute power, but if he signs a bill or vetoes a bill in return for a $100,000 payment, he's guilty of bribery and he can go to jail.
Richard Painter /
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Bribery
Guilty
Jail
Payment
Veto
Absolute
Signs
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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.
Robert Caro / Journalist
Power
Absolute Power
Believe
Book
Lord
Power Corrupts
Taught
Started
Always Believe I Believe
About
More
Power Believe I Believe
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Always
Any
True
Books
Axiom
Corrupt
Cleanse
Corrupts
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