Lord Acton Quotes
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Quotes to Explore
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
Pat Paulsen
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
Lake Bell
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
Carlo Ratti
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
Barack Obama
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins
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We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.
Rachel Grace Held
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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
Plato
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton