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:
“Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others to kneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)