"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."from http://www.phrases.org.uk
Friday, March 30, 2012
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" arose as part of a quotation by the expansively named and impressively hirsute John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
Monday, March 5, 2012
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