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Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power. ↗

— Boyd Rice

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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. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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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. ↗

— John Acton

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— John Acton

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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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. ↗

— Robert Caro

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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. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. ↗

— John F. Lehman, Jr.

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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. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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