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Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and c

Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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Everything is generated through your own will power. – Ray Bradbury

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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you arent. – Margaret Thatcher

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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