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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

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#better #communicate #effort #even #lazy

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#am #city #city council #council #government

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support. ↗

— Tom Felton

#fans #i #like #line #media

Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood. ↗

— Robert Caro

#days #exception #football #i #long

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#christ #down #enable #followers #forward

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #genius #make #political #senate

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#culture #films #hollywood #i #i am

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#economic #economic policy #forbidden #new #policy