“For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.”

The Five faces of Corruption, p. 45
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer 1911–1983

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