Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
by clarkmoody on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:52PM
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> power corrupts
The full quote is worth repeating here.
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 of the certainty of corruption by authority.
The full quote is worth repeating here.
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 of the certainty of corruption by authority.