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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.
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:
10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”
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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
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The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st–2nd century Roman satirist.Although in its modern usage the phrase has wide-reaching applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of ...