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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

“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.”

—Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)