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Absolute Power Quotes

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended Picture Quote #1
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself Picture Quote #1
You know, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust? Picture Quote #1
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic Picture Quote #1
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending Picture Quote #1
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians Picture Quote #1
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety Picture Quote #1
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it Picture Quote #1
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Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay Picture Quote #1
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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? 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
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them Picture Quote #1
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people Picture Quote #1
Over the times thou hast no power... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends Picture Quote #1
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? Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended  (Absolute Power Quotes) If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself  (Absolute Power Quotes) You know, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew  (Absolute Power Quotes) 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  (Absolute Power Quotes) 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 Quotes) Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic  (Absolute Power Quotes) To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending  (Absolute Power Quotes) Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians  (Absolute Power Quotes) The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition  (Absolute Power Quotes) 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  (Absolute Power Quotes) It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety  (Absolute Power Quotes) To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it  (Absolute Power Quotes) Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay  (Absolute Power Quotes) Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed  (Absolute Power Quotes) 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  (Absolute Power Quotes) 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 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) If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them  (Absolute Power Quotes) No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people  (Absolute Power Quotes) Over the times thou hast no power... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest  (Absolute Power Quotes) 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 Quotes) I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends  (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) 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  (Absolute Power Quotes)
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