I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
LORD ACTONBefore God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
More Lord Acton Quotes
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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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.
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