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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

It is something about having absolute power over another being that drives men to incomprehensible acts of cruelty. — Mark Tufo

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

That no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption. — Gennifer Albin

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

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. — Albert Camus

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

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. — Eric Hoffer

That a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy. — Thomas Paine

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

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert

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

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called. — Marie Lu

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity. — Bill Cosby

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

When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in. — Clive James

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

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness. — Curt Mega

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

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan

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 absolutely

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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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer

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

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

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

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control. — Napoleon Hill