Absolute Power

Absolute Power may refer to:

  • Lord Acton's dictum, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
  • The power held by the sovereign of an absolute monarchy
  • Omnipotence, unlimited power, as of a deity
  • Absolute Power (novel), a 1996 novel by David Baldacci
  • Absolute Power (film), a 1997 film based on Baldacci's novel, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
  • Absolute Power (Tech N9ne album), 2002
  • Absolute Power (Pro-Pain album), 2010
  • Absolute Power (comedy), a BBC television and radio series
  • "Absolute Power" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series
  • "Absolute Power", a story arc from Superman/Batman comic book series
  • "Absolute Power", episode of Superman: The Animated Series
  • Absolute Power: The Helen Clark Years (2008), book by Ian Wishart
  • The Day the Earth Shook – The Absolute Power, DVD by American heavy metal band Manowar

Famous quotes containing the words absolute power, absolute and/or power:

    ““Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Yes, and absolute weakness corrupts absolutely.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)