Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Quotes by Lord Acton, John Lehman, Robert Caro, Howard Nemerov, Rafael Correa, George Deacon and many others.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Great men are almost always bad men.
Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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.
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.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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.
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.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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