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"Power doesn't corrupt; it reveals." -- Robert Caro It's not the marination in money, it's the loss of constraint that fear brings. Most of us aren't good

• throw0101a 6mo ago
  “But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.” — https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1127738-but-although-the-cliche-says-that-power-always-corrupts-what https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1127738-but-although-the-cl... > Most of us aren't good people at heart. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450864-the-line-separating-good-and-evil-passes-not-through-states https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450864-the-line-separating-...