absolute power

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But time and again the poisonous isolation that absolute power imposes on its wielders blunted the edge of their insight and degraded the capacity of their societies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

He saw King George III’s rule as the epitome of tyranny, and warned that “a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

This is the type of monarchy embodied by Prince Carlo’s Bourbon ancestor, that very same Louis XIV who ruled by divine right and sought absolute power.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

“The Boys” counters that if absolute power corrupts absolutely, then superpower corrupts superbly.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan