Lord Acton Quotes

“Power tends to corrupt;
absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Lord Acton

“The character of Superman is a rebuttal of Lord Acton's famous dictum: he has absolute power, but it does not corrupt him. Rather, his power grants him freedom from fear. This freedom allows him to be a superman, and to realize his potential by helping others.”
― Deke Parsons, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy