Lord Acton's Quote - Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to d

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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to d

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Every time you dont follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. – Shakti Gawain

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