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Category Archives: Power
Voltaire on Beliefs
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.” Continue reading
Publius Tacitus on Laws
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.” Continue reading
A. H. Weiler on Power
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.” Continue reading
John Lehman on Power
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.” Continue reading
Ronald Reagan on Government
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'” Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. on Science
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Continue reading
Lord Acton on Power
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson on Politics
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.” Continue reading
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