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![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](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/777/776328/776328.webp "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")
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![[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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/823/822604/822604.webp "[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 Picture Quote #1")
![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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/823/822600/822600.webp "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 Picture Quote #1")
![Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]’Power corrupts’ is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/823/822599/822599.webp "Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]’Power corrupts’ is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action Picture Quote #1")
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Absolute Power Quotes)
Absolute power doesn’t corrupt, but rather, reveals character (Absolute Power Quotes)
No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute (Absolute Power Quotes)
The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity (Absolute Power Quotes)
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it (Absolute Power Quotes)
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute (Absolute Power Quotes)
The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part (Absolute Power Quotes)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Absolute Power Quotes)
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? (Absolute Power Quotes)
[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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 (Absolute Power Quotes)
God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power (Absolute Power Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]’Power corrupts’ is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action (Absolute Power Quotes)