【用戶】nomi

【年級】高二上

【評論內容】(C) Power tends corruption ,and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 權力使人腐化，絕對的權力一定導致腐敗。約翰·愛默里克·愛德華·達爾伯格-阿克頓，第一代阿克頓男爵，KCVO（英語：John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton，1834年1月10日－1902年6月19日），英國歷史學家、自由主義者，英文常簡稱「Lord Acton」（阿克頓勳爵）。名言編輯“    你的準則是不以評價他人的方式評價教皇和國王，並以善意假設他們不會做錯，我對此無法接受。如果存在任何假設，那將與權力的持有人相對立，他的權力愈發增加，其對立就愈發增加。必須以歷史責任彌補法律責任的缺失，權力使人腐化，絕對的權力一定導致腐敗。偉人幾乎從來都是壞人，就算他們施加的是影響而不是權威。而當你以權威再加上腐敗的趨勢或必然，就更是如此。沒有比以下說法更為離經叛道，即職位會使擁有它的人變得聖潔。就是在這一點上，對天主教的否定和對自由主義的否定相通並一直持續，而且目的是可以通過學習來懂得如何使得其手段變得正當。（I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means.）