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Type: Historian Quotes Category: British Historian Quotes Year of Birth: 1834 Year of Death: 1902 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Lord Acton Related Authors: Arnold J. Toynbee Arthur Helps C. Northcote Parkinson A. J. P. Taylor E. P. Thompson B. H. Liddell Hart Eric Hobsbawm |
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. Lord Acton If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. Lord Acton Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Lord Acton Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. Lord Acton Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. Lord Acton Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. Lord Acton The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. Lord Acton To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. Lord Acton |
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