September 19, 2010

#1,894

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

2 comments:

  1. The original Spanish is:

    El poder corrompe más seguramente al que lo codicia que al que lo ejerce.

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  2. This is, I believe, an allusion to Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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