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"ALL POWER
TENDS
TOCORRUPT
AND
ABSOLUTE
POWER
CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY."
ACTON (1834-1902)
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"POWER CORRUPTS, AND ABSOLUTE POWER
CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY
LORD ACTON
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Because power corrupts,
society's demands for
moral authority and
character increase as the
importance of the position
increases.
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John Adams
2nd US. President
(1902-1984)
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POWER TENDS TO
CORRUPT, AND
ABSOLUTE POWER
CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY.
John Acton
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"Power tends
to corrupt,
and absolute
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"All power tends to
corrupt and absolute
power corrupts abéolutely.'
—Lord Acton
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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.
(Studs Terkel)
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-ALL POWER
TENDS
AMO
ABSOLUTE
POWER
CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY.-
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Power corrupts
and absolute Power
corrupts absolutely.
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"ALL POWER
TENDS
TO CORRUPT
AND
ABSOLUTE
POWER
CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY."
LORD EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON (1834-1902)
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"l TRULY BELIEVE THAT ALL POWER CORRUPTS.
SUCH IS PROBABLY THE THINKING BEHIND
EVERY POLITICAL FILM EVER MADE IN
HOLLYWOOD."
ELIA KAZAN
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I cannot accept, your canon that
we are to judge pope and king
unlike other men, with a favorable
presumption that they do no
wrong. If there is any
presumption, it is the other way
against holders of power ... Power
tends to corrupt, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
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"Nearly all men
can stand adversity,
but ifyou want to test
a man's character,
give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln
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POWER TENDS
TO CORRUPT,
AND ABSOLUTE
POWER
CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY.
PICTLIREQIJ.TES
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"POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT AND ABSOLUTE
POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY
LORD ACTON
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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. Votes: 3

Howard Nemerov
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Votes: 2

Lord Acton
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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. Votes: 2

Rafael Correa
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Votes: 1

John Acton
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Votes: 1

Harry Shearer
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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. Votes: 1

Robert Caro
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. Votes: 0

John F. Lehman, Jr.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Votes: 0

Lord Acton
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With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. Votes: 0

Clint Eastwood
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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. Votes: 0

Steven Brust
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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? Votes: 0

Terence Rattigan
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. Votes: -2

John Lehman
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Votes: -2

Eric Hoffer
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?? Votes: -2

George Deacon
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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.

Studs Terkel
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Absolute (537 quotes)

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Votes: 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Corrupts (150 quotes)

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Votes: 4 Edward Abbey

Power (563 quotes)

Power is paradoxical. Votes: 5 Friedrich Durrenmatt

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