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The only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, [5] and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet [6] (who succeeded to the baronetcy and estates held by another branch of the Acton family in Shropshire in 1791), Acton was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, from 1837 to 1869.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. —Lord Acton ‘Tis better to have loved and lost/ than never to have loved at all. —Alfred Lloyd Tennyson. Aphorisms in popular ...
Lord Acton famously stated "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", an idea embodied in the addictive power of the One Ring. The corrupting effect of power is, according to Shippey, a modern theme, since in earlier times, power was considered to "reveal character", not alter it. Shippey quotes Lord Acton's 1887 statement:
The corrupting effect of power is, according to Shippey, a modern theme, since in earlier times, power was considered to "reveal character", not alter it. Shippey quotes Lord Acton's 1887 statement: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men [30]
The Ring offers power to its wearer, and progressively corrupts the wearer's mind to evil. [27] [28] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey applies Lord Acton's 1887 statement that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men" to it.
Lord Acton's dictum, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" The power held by the sovereign of an absolute monarchy; The power held by a leader of an autocracy or dictatorship; Omnipotence, unlimited power, as of a deity
The correct quote is 'If you build it, he will come.' 'Wall Street' Though Gordon Gekko definitely thinks greed is good, his quote is actually 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.'
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