Joseph Addison Quote

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.


The Spectator, no. 90-505 (ed. 1721)


An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with...

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with...

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with...

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with...