“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
“Power’s tendency to corrupt is a function of the work it does in liberating man’s worse characteristics.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 25, “Power” (p. 105)
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