John Acton Quotes
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Human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.
— Hayley Williams
I respect softness and kindness not the power.
— Debasish Mridha
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
— John Acton
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
As if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment
— P.G. Wodehouse
No statues, please. School or statue? Hospital or statue? No need to explain further.
— Chetan Bhagat
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Love is always more than friendship.
— Will Advise
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— John Acton
Moments after his death, an event he had failed to notice, Gordon Small sought new employment
— Emily Schultz
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.
— Hank Green
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
— John Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
— Madame De Stael
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
What are you wearing?" "Coveralls. Shit-kickers. Long, latex gloves." He blinked. "can't wait to see you take them off.
— Roxanne Snopek
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton