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• El poder tiende a corromper y el poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente. Los grandes hombres son casi siempre malos hombres, incluso cuando ejercen influencia y no autoridad: más aún cuando se añade la tendencia o la certeza de la corrupción por la autoridad.

  Lord Acton

  Ejercicio, Hombres, Influencia y Poder

  "Ensayos y estudios históricos". Libro de John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• El federalismo es el mejor freno a la democracia. [Asigna poderes limitados al gobierno central. De este modo, todo el poder está limitado. Excluye el poder absoluto de la mayoría.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Majority

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• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Husband, Egypt, World

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• We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

  Robert Caro

  Believe, Book, Taught

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Lo que me preocupa es que haya dos cámaras, la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado, pero con un poder simplemente mayoritario y absoluto en cada lado. Y eso no es lo que los fundadores pretendían.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Two, Worry

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• Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power

  Boyd Rice

  Exercise, People, Interest

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• La gente dice que soy una chica simpática que dice cosas terribles. Tiendo a decir lo contrario de lo que pienso. Esperas que el poder absoluto de eso trascienda y llegue al público.

  Sarah Silverman

  Chica, Agradable, Pensar

  "Depravación silenciosa", por Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. 24 de octubre de 2005.

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• The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last thing they wanted was to be ruled by a temporary king with absolute powers for four years.

  Patrick Leahy

  Father, Our Founding Fathers, Temporary

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Los grandes hombres son casi siempre malos hombres, incluso cuando ejercen influencia y no autoridad...

  Lord Acton

  Ejercicio, Hombres, Influencia y Poder

  "Ensayos y estudios históricos". Libro de John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• La libertad no es un medio para alcanzar un fin político superior. Es en sí misma el fin político más elevado.

  Lord Acton

  Sabiduría, Libertad, Significado

  Lord Acton (2016). "La historia de la libertad: Gran Acontecimiento", p.19, VM eBooks.

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• I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Thinking, Giving, Human Experience

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• El peligro no es que una clase en particular no sea apta para gobernar: toda clase no es apta para gobernar.

  Lord Acton

  Derechos, Gobierno, Clase

  "Cartas de Lord Acton a Mary Gladstone". Libro de John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• El artículo fundamental de mi credo político es que el despotismo, o soberanía limitada, o poder absoluto es el mismo [ya sea] en una mayoría de una asamblea popular; un consejo aristocrático; o junto oligárquico y un solo emperador - igualmente arbitrario, cruel, sangriento y en todos los aspectos diabólico.

  John Adams

  Políticos, Arbitrarios, Fundamentales

  Carta de John Adams a Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. 13 de noviembre de 1815.

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• [H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.82, Broadview Press

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• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

  John Lehman

  Power, Confusion, Political

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• Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Wish, Politics

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• Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Trying, Moral

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2010). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.45, Anchor

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• With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Office, Power Corrupts

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Quienes deseen elevarse tan alto como lo permita nuestra condición humana, deben renunciar al orgullo intelectual, a la omnipotencia del pensamiento claro, a la creencia en el poder absoluto de la lógica.

  Alexis Carrel

  Creer, Orgullo, Pensar

  "Saiva Siddhanta" de Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volumen 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• Absolute power demoralizes.

  Lord Acton

  Absolutos

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• Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.

  Dennis Lehane

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Diferencias

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• If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

  Mijaíl Bakunin

  Years, Would Be, Revolutionary

  Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Subcomandante Marcos “NASI-onalisme ?”, bukuLIAT

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• Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Character, Adversity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

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• No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

  Séneca el Joven

  Wisdom, Long, Politics

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• The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Jobs, Book, Advice

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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