Lord Acton on balance
Lord Acton108 quotes“When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.”
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Lord ActonLord Acton If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord ActonLord Acton No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Lord ActonLord Acton It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Lord ActonLord Acton Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
Lord ActonLord Acton Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Lord ActonLord Acton Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
Lord ActonLord Acton At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
Lord ActonLord Acton The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
Lord ActonLord 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 ActonLord Acton A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
Lord ActonLord Acton And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Lord ActonLord Acton The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord ActonLord Acton History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
Lord ActonLord Acton It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
Lord ActonLord Acton But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
Al FrankenAl Franken They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
Al FrankenAl Franken The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
Al FrankenAl Franken The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
Aimee MullinsAimee Mullins China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei
