Tyranny Unleashed: Quotes On The Abuse Of Power.
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"The power you give away will eventually be used against you." -- Timo Malum
“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of those we have elected.” -- A.R. Merrydew
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -- Gerald R. Ford
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." -- James Madison
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton
"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people." -- Jean De La Fontaine
"Great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents." -- Charles Dickens
“There are people, like tigers, who have a thirst for licking blood. A man who has once experienced this power, this unlimited lordship over the body, blood, and spirit of a man just like himself, created in the same way his brother by the law of Christ; a man who has experienced this power and the full possibility of inflicting the ultimate humiliation upon another being bearing the image of God, somehow involuntarily loses control of his sensations. Tyranny is a habit; it is endowed with development, and develops finally into an illness.” -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
