Absolute Power Quotes
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One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.
— Walter Wriston
The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.
— Ken Follett
God's manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
— Seneca The Younger
No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.
— Justina Chen
Over the times thou hast no power ... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
— Thomas Carlyle
Coin didn't protect you. It didn't save you from your secrets. Only absolute power did that. He
— C.J. Redwine
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
— John F. Lehman Jr.
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
— Louis D. Brandeis
Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.
— Aubertine Woodward Moore
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
— Clint Eastwood
the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession.
— Anne Applebaum
this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.
— Erich Fromm
How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?
— Salman Rushdie
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
— Eric Hoffer
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
absolute power, it was terrifying.
— Richard Sanders
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
— Pierre Corneille
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
— Lord Chesterfield
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)
— Helen Prejean
absolute power is corrupting
— Richard Wright
Maximum Sustained Power (MSP) training is a novel approach that improves absolute power,
— Mark Sisson
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
— Woodrow Wilson
There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
— Marta Mrotek
All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.
— Peter Mansfield
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
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
we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.
— Suzanne La Follette
A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love',
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
— Charles Spurgeon
We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutelyfrom Steelheart (Reckoners #1)
by Brandon Sanderson — Brandon Sanderson
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
— Thomas Jefferson
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
— Edward Kennedy
Rights are more reliable than the kindness of someone who has absolute power over you.
— Rebecca Solnit
If one attains awareness of own's own Self's authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).
— Dada Bhagwan
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.
— Orrin Woodward
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
— Frank Herbert
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.
— Patricia Cornwell
God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.
— Paul David Washer
Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.
— Robert Shea
