I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
LORD ACTONHistory, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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