3 December 2020 Lord Acton I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
