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Absolute Power Quotes

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control Picture Quote #1

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely Picture Quote #1

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it’s called Picture Quote #1

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute Picture Quote #1

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it Picture Quote #1

You have the absolute power to change someone’s life with kindness Picture Quote #1

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity Picture Quote #1

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute Picture Quote #1

Absolute power doesn’t corrupt, but rather, reveals character Picture Quote #1

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only ‘friend,’ at least until you’re old enough to go to school Picture Quote #1

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent Picture Quote #1

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ’s death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute Picture Quote #1

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God’s place and relation towards his fellow-men Picture Quote #1

I don’t actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don’t reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely Picture Quote #1

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler Picture Quote #1

As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness Picture Quote #1

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