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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

~Alexis Carrel

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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

~Barack Obama

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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

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Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.

~Brian Stableford

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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

~Charles Kennedy

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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

~David Brinkley

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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

~Edward Brooke

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

~Eric Hoffer

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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

~Eugene Kennedy

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God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

~Gerrit Smith

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