Good Morning Silicone Valley (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Just saw an outstanding concert film, “The Who at Kilburn,” filmed in 1977 but only now released. At the end of the show comes “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” and at the end of that song, after the synth break, Moon’s thundering punctuation and Daltry’s primal...
third world county (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK... A lazy, complacent electorate is all that's needed for the triumph of evil (with not so sincere apologies to Lord Acton *heh*).
Mundifrases (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
De Lord Acton, temática: Poder
Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Cheap Political Ploy Dept. Naked Grab for Paddle Power! "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." --Lord Acton DBKP has discovered another slimy politician grabbing for the brass ring of political power! Our vow: We will not rest until we've exposed this fraud to the public! by Mondoreb image: DBKP
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
"If you want to make an omelet, you must be willing to break a few eggs." Vladmir Lenin "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.." Lord Acton Phillip Pan, former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief has written a great book on China, entitled, "Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China." The book profiles 11 Chinese, mostly present day, and by doing so, it...
The Seventh Sola (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
While we can certainly find things with which to quibble in the writings of any philosopher or historian, it's hard to quibble with the late Lord Acton. If you'll notice, he has a very jaundiced view of humanity on a high horse. I offer this today in lieu of trying to be witty myself. It's the weekend . . . in the dog days of summer . . . and I am feeling very lazy. No doubt Lord Acton would disapprove,...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
To date, our government has spent $100 billion of our tax money on a national missile shield one commentator described as, “a system that won’t work, against a threat that doesn’t exist, paid for by money we don’t have.” Lord Acton didn’t go far enough. Power doesn’t just corrupt; it rots the brain.
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Guess who I came on the other day in the University Library? None other than Lord Acton, the celebrated Catholic historian, who in 1887 wrote to Bishop Creighton: "I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If [...]
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
1. Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit is justice is no virtue (Barry Goldwater). 2. Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end (Lord Acton). 3. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too (Somerset...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
Glenn Greenwald reports that while in England, "to this expansion of the Government’s detention power comes from the British Right," in America, "skepticism of Government power — which lies not only at the heart of most key British reforms over the last 8 centuries but also at the heart of the American Founding — is precisely what has been missing almost completely from the American Right" — Conservatism...
Techlearning blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Lord Acton was right: absolute power really does corrupt absolutely.
Conservative History Journal (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Well, to be quite precise, time for another quote from the great Lord Acton. This one is extraordinarily apt for all ages: If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. How true, how very true.
Maverecon (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
This blog is a meditation on the old truth stated by Lord Acton: “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Governments that have been in power for more than about eight years begin to smell - rather more slowly than fish left on the counter, but with equal certainty. Heads of government (or heads of [...]
Quotes of the Day (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
