Ballast: Weight added to a boat to enhance stability. âThe J/24 has 950 pounds of lead ballast.â. Berth: A sleeping area on a boat. Also, a place where a boat is tied up. âWe slept in the forward berth while John and Amy slept in the quarter berthâ or âWe keep our boat in a berth at McDoodleâs Marina.â.
Lord Acton writes to Bishop Creighton that the same moral standards should be applied to all men, political and religious leaders included, especially since âPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutelyâ (1887) From: Acton-Creighton Correspondence (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
Quotes. 1  To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 24. 2  The Ninth Rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.