Absolute Power Quotes

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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power

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.

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

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.

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.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

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.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Absolute power demoralizes.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

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.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

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

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

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

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

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

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

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.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting

Powerless=lifeless.

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle