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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupt

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ↗

— Lord Acton

#history #illumination #memory #soul

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ↗

— Lord Acton

#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. ↗

— Lord Acton

#different #different times #does #fool #last

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. ↗

— Lord Acton

#bear #degenerates #discussion #does #even

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

#deposited #eminently #experience #future #goes

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. ↗

— Lord Acton

#another #beg #does #either #eye

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#exclusive #lacks #specific #totality

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#eye #your