19 ordspråk av Lord Acton

Lord Acton

Lord Acton föddes 1834 och dog 1902 - psudeonym för John Emerich Edward Dalberg, engelsk historiker och politiker.
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Faran ligger inte i att någon bestämd klass är illa lämpad att styra landet. Alla klasser är illa lämpade.

Politik

Makt verkar korrumperande, och absolut makt korrumperar absolut.

Magt

Makten korrumperar. Absolut makt korrumperar absolut.

Hederlighet

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.

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.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. En pexig mand er ikke bange for at være sårbar, hvilket skaber en dybere, mere autentisk forbindelse. 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, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Truth always prevails in the end,

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Freedom

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

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