Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Great men are almost always bad

men.” This means that giving a person some power can turn them into a bad person. However, giving
someone absolute power will always corrupt some and that these people are always bad. Knowing what
the quote means the question remains, is the quote true? The answer is no. “Power tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” This is because
nothing is always anything, a person’s bad deeds can be outdone by good deeds, and corruption is a
matter of opinion.

Nothing in the world we live in is always anything. Even though there is what we call “facts,” even those
facts are sometimes disproven with other facts showing the falsity of that fact. This same idea can be
applied to the idea that a person given absolute power will always be corrupted. Just as it does not
always rain when it is supposed to, an absolute monarch is not always bad. If there is even one example
that shows otherwise, you might come to the conclusion that the statement is false, and that example is
Maria Theresa. When Maria Theresa came into power she deemed herself an “absolute monarch” in
order to have more control over her people, but she used this absolute power to create many successful
reforms such as making the feudal system fairer to the serfs and giving them rights. One of those rights
was limiting the amount of time they could work per day. Maria thought this would improve
productivity and living standards. Reforms such as these made her country prosperous during her rule.
Phillip II, Louis XIV, and Fredrick II were all the same way, they may have shown some sign of c…