alt Hacker NewsAlso Lord Acton - “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.”
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brazzy • today at 1:05 PM
Acton was, by the way, an ardent supporter of the Confederacy. In his opinion, the federal government curtailing the independence of states was a more significant act of oppression than slavery.
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Corruption empowers, and absolute corruption empowers absolutely. It seems to me that some people adopt this perspective.