John Dalberg Acton citáty
strana 4

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1. Baron Acton, KCVO byl anglický liberální katolík, historik a novinář. V letech 1859-1866 byl poslancem Dolní sněmovny.

Je znám výrokem „Moc korumpuje a absolutní moc korumpuje absolutně.“ Wikipedia  

✵ 10. leden 1834 – 19. červen 1902
John Dalberg Acton foto
John Dalberg Acton: 116 citátů9 lajků

John Dalberg Acton nejznámější citáty

„Moc kazí a absolutní moc kazí absolutně.“

John Dalberg Acton

v dopise biskupu Mandellu Creightonovi, duben 1887
Originál: (en) All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Varianta: Všechna moc korumpuje, a absolutní moc korumpuje absolutně.

Zdroj: [Bennett, William J, The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood, Thomas Nelson Inc, 2011, anglicky]

„Fanatismus v náboženství je spojení vášní, jež náboženství odsuzuje, s články víry, jež vyznává.“

John Dalberg Acton

Originál: (en) Fanaticism in religion is an alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
Zdroj: [Dawson, Christopher, 1997, Bohové revoluce, Vyšehrad, 1., 18, 80-7021-171-7]

„Význační muži jsou téměř bez výjimky zlí lidé.“

John Dalberg Acton

v eseji Jiřího Přibáně »Senátor a jeho Senát«
Zdroj: [Salon, příloha Práva, Borgis, 2020, prosinec, 31, 30, 1206, 15, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/salon, 1211-2119, česky]

John Dalberg Acton: Citáty anglicky

“A government which cannot be reformed does not merit to be preserved.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 74
Undated

“The strongest of all the obstacles to progress, the reign of the dead.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 60, n. 1
Undated

“If it can be shown that the majority of women will probably be Liberal, or that they will divide equally, I should say that the balance is, very slightly, in favour of giving them votes.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Letter to William Ewart Gladstone (26 April 1891), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 235

“The yeoman farmers of the United States have always been the strength of the republic.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

The North British Review (April 1870), p. 268, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 217

“We must not pursue science for ends independent of science. It must be pursued for its own sake, and must lead to its own results.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private journal (1858), quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 40

“The lesson of modern history—that Religions enjoy (are endowed with) the prerogative of perpetual youth while philosophies seldom outlast a generation.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 195
Undated

“The early history of the world is the history of a few great men. Their Wirkungskreis is immense—vaster than that of God himself.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
Undated

“The only resistance ever made to Louis XIV was from religion.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
Undated

“Religious liberty came not from the Reformation or from the sects as a whole but from particular sects...especially those which the Reformation sought to exterminate.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
Undated

“What one hears in Ranke. The whisper of statecraft. Not the tramp of democracy's earthquake feet. Not the dull roar of surging opinion.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 192
Undated

“Liberalism is really opposed to liberty. ... Modern liberalism in England as well as abroad, in America as well as in Europe, has done more to destroy liberty than monarchy has done.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 186
Undated

“[I]t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Letter to William Ewart Gladstone (21 November 1891), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 257
1890s

“A time came when the Catholics, having long relied on force, were compelled to appeal to opinion. That which had been defiantly acknowledged and defended required to be ingeniously explained away. The same motive which had justified the murder now prompted the lie. Men shrank from the conviction that the rulers and restorers of their Church had been murderers and abetters of murder, and that so much infamy had been coupled with so much zeal. They feared to say that the most monstrous of crimes had been solemnly approved at Rome, lest they should devote the Papacy to the execration of mankind. A swarm of facts were invented to meet the difficulty: The victims were insignificant in number; they were slain for no reason connected with religion; the Pope believed in the existence of the plot; the plot was a reality; the medal is fictitious; the massacre was a feint concerted with the Protestants themselves; the Pope rejoiced only when he heard that it was over. These things were repeated so often that they have been sometimes believed; and men have fallen into this way of speaking whose sincerity was unimpeachable, and who were not shaken in their religion by the errors or the vices of Popes. Möhler was pre-eminently such a man. In his lectures on the history of the Church, which were published only last year, he said that the Catholics, as such, took no part in the massacre; that no cardinal, bishop, or priest shared in the councils that prepared it; that Charles informed the Pope that a conspiracy had been discovered; and that Gregory made his thanksgiving only because the King's life was saved. Such things will cease to be written when men perceive that truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Zdroj: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)

Podobní autoři

Benjamin Disraeli foto
Benjamin Disraeli50
britský konzervativní politik, spisovatel, aristokrat a pre… None
 Charles Caleb Colton foto
Charles Caleb Colton9
britský kněz a spisovatel None
Charles Darwin foto
Charles Darwin25
britský přírodovědec None
Charles Spurgeon foto
Charles Spurgeon142
britský kazatel, autor a pastor None
John Stuart Mill foto
John Stuart Mill18
britský filozof a politický ekonom None
Theodor Mommsen foto
Theodor Mommsen2
německý klasický učenec, historik, právník, novinář, politi… None
Ľudovít Velislav Štúr foto
Ľudovít Velislav Štúr4
slovenský básník, filozof, lingvista, publicista, politik a… None
Theodore Roosevelt foto
Theodore Roosevelt39
americký politik, 26. prezident Spojených států None
Charles Dickens foto
Charles Dickens32
anglický spisovatel a společenský kritik None
Thomas Carlyle foto
Thomas Carlyle50
skotský filozof, satirik, esejista, historik a pedagog None