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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?

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

Garrison Keillor
People, Methodists, Absolute Power
"Mark Their Names". www.nytimes.com. October 02, 2006.

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

Rudolph Rummel
Absolute Power, Absolutes
"Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, 1944.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Absolute Power, Absolutes, Powerlessness
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.164, Basic Books

Absolute power demoralizes.

Lord Acton
Absolute Power, Absolutes

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

Rafael Correa
Assuming, Power Corrupts, Absolute Power

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

Eric Hoffer
Power Corrupts, Inhumanity, Absolute Power
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

Curt Mega
Kindness, Absolute Power, Power To Change

The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last thing they wanted was to be ruled by a temporary king with absolute powers for four years.

Patrick Leahy
Father, Our Founding Fathers, Absolute Power
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

Marie Lu
Matter, No Matter What, Absolute Power
Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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