Sentences with phrase «power corrupts men»

Power corrupts men as well.

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He describes with great accuracy the necessities of Christian existence in which love is the meaning of all knowledge and action, but in which man must cope with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions of the corrupt human spirit.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

Sorry, but I won't take marching orders from some guy who is reading from a book that was held in the power of corrupt men tanslated numerous times by the method of hand written copies.

Man, the creation story says, has capacities and powers which raise him far above the rest of creation and make him capable of fellowship and of conscious cooperation with his Creator; but, says the story of the fall, not only is he actually falling short of the glory of God for which he was created, but his very spiritual capacities have been corrupted and perverted, so that whereas on the one hand he is infinitely above the beasts, on the other he is infinitely beneath them.

Still, in light of God's willingness to have faith in his creature by intending these moral powers for man and limiting his own powers for the sake of giving man «space» in which to be more than a «robot» or a «puppet» in a «stage play,» and most especially in light of God's willingness to enter into the worst of man's human - historical condition via the incarnation for the sake of redeeming the «lifeworld» that man, by his powers, has corrupted through sin, the moral agent can ultimately affirm his or her moral nature in confidence that this «image of God» will not only not be lost but will continue to be affirmed and redeemed to the glory of God.

But corrupt, worldly, or weak Popes used their power to appoint as abbots men who had the emoluments of the office but seldom if ever were in residence.

He learned that power corrupts, that an army marches on its stomach, and that if you would teach a hungry man, first you had better feed him.

And as a matter of fact, some of the battle men Buhari came into the warfront with may actually be more corrupt that those his electoral victory edged out of power.

An eight - count indictment accuses the two men of «a corrupt scheme to monetize Dean Skelos's official position,» in which the senator used his power to obtain for his son jobs and payments from companies with business before the state.

Man's quest for power through corrupt means will push them into attempting to destroy people of integrity.

In subduing Lady Macbeth's influence over her husband's actions it becomes a pretty bland story of one man being corrupted by power.

Once you get past the fact that it isn't a biopic about its writer Jon Ronson's time playing keyboards for the late musician and comedian Frank Sidebottom (an easy mistake to make, given Gleeson's character is called Jon and plays keyboards in a band fronted by a man called Frank, played by Michael Fassbender from beneath a papier - mache head almost identical to that sported by Sidebottom), Frank turns out to be a funny and moving meditation on mental illness and the corrupting power of fame, even of the minor variety.

Arguably, she's reactive and passive as a result of the conditions imposed on her by her uncle and his superiors — all Russian men are invariably corrupt, brutal, and self - serving — but it also makes for unengaging, dull drama regardless of Lawrence's star power, natural beauty, or her semi-credible Russian accent (to her credit, she never slips up as American actors often due).

Adding a bit of star power to the film, John Cusack shows up as Gus, a slightly corrupt police man who helps out JP and Mikey through the film.

Oh yes, the net result of science is that man can kill more of his fellows more efficiently than ever before, because when knowledge which is power is given to the beast which is man he corrupts even further.