Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Quotes

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Quotes by Lord Acton, John Lehman, Robert Caro, Howard Nemerov, Rafael Correa, George Deacon and many others.

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman
Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord Acton
Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Robert Caro
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
Lord Acton
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.
Howard Nemerov
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
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
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
George Deacon
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
Lord Acton
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President’s John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Lord Acton
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer