Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 22 " There is nothing more a wish can lose than by coming true." ― Peter Bamm " Ein Wunsch kann durch nichts mehr verlieren als dadurch, dass er in Erfüllung geht. "

Quote of the Week 21 " Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. " ―  Lord Acton Triggered by the episode " Keine Angst vor Macht und Mächtigen " (April 16, 2024) of the German " Wegen guter Führung " podcast.  See also: Macht // Power . Quote in context ( Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton , April 5, 1887 ): " ... I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the 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 t...

Quote of the Week 20 " The dose makes the poison." ―  Paracelsus aka  Theophrastus von Hohenheim "Sola dosis facit venenum." " Nur die Dosis macht das Gift. " Full quote : " All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison . "

Quote of the Week 19 " I know it when I see it." ―  Potter Stewart The phrase appears in Justice Potter Stewart's concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio , a pornography case decided by the Court in 1964. Also referred to as Steve Jobs ' Credo  by Malcolm Gladwell in a New Yorker book review of the Steve Jobs biography (authored by Walter Isaacson) : " I’ll know it when I see it.  That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge. "