Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton.
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”
“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”
“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 ...”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”
“Snob corrupted.”
“The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.”
“Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society”