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- Nov 07, 2020
Absolute Power Quotes
The classic warning about power, and a few playful twists on it.
The famous warning that power corrupts absolutely gets a wry rewrite here too, one performer joking that absolute power actually sounds 'kind of neat.' Between the caution and the joke sits a real argument, expanded in Absolute Power Corrupts.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.
- Bad
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
- Power
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What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Guilty
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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.
- Foundation
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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
- General
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
- Never
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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
- Political
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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020