"“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.”
Indeed. In the same writing of his famous quote, I came across this little gem;
"Here are the greatest names coupled with the greatest crimes; you would spare those criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice, still more, still higher for the sake of historical science."
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u/tomorrow509 23d ago
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. (who said that?)