Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
LORD ACTONProgress, the religion of those who have none.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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