Lord Acton

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt. Absolutely. When people ask me what the main theme of my book is, I tend to say, you know, power corrupts. It's very interesting because, you know, I hang out with a trough of grant and do good for some really upstanding citizens who have the best intentions. And, you know, under certain circumstances, let's say somebody wired 100 million dollars to my bank account today. It might actually bring out the worst in me.

It might actually make me take advantage of the power of that hundred million dollars gives people so on this quote by Lord Acton power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's very telling and poignant because you know, It's actually kind of easier to be a, let's say a holy or holier than now, if you don't have a lot of power, but when you have a lot of power, temptations could get the better of you

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