Brian Acton Quotes

“People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.”

“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.”

“To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.”

“Socialism means slavery.”

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.”

“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”

“If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.”

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”