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Quotes about power
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (Acton John)
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Acton John)
Diplomacy... the art of restraining power. (Acton John)
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. (Acton John)
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Acton John)
There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die. (Acton John)
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (Acton John)
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. (Acton John)
Let them hate, so long as they fear. (Acton John)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Acton John)
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. (Acton John)
A friend in power is a friend lost. (Acton John)
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. (Acton John)
The man whose authority is recent is always stern. (Acton John)
The price of power is responsibility for the public good. (Acton John)
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. (Acton John)
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. (Acton John)
Power tires only those who do not have it. (Acton John)
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength. (Acton John)
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world. (Acton John)
A word after a word after a word is power. (Acton John)
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Acton John)
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Acton John)
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. (Acton John)
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. (Acton John)
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