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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 7961621" data-attributes="member: 6563">There are two schools of thought on this:"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."—John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."—Frank Herbert (1920–1986), Chapterhouse: DunePersonally, I find that there is truth in both statements—power is, indeed, an intoxicant that easily corrupts those that hold it, but it also a siren's song to those whose hearts are already corrupt.</blockquote>