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Famous Quotes
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
More quotes about Power
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln on Power -
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher on Power -
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee on Power -
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche on Power -
"Character is power."
Booker T. Washington on Power
More quotes by Lord Acton
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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
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"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."
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"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
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"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."