[net.politics.theory] Power and Corruption

bockert@bgsuvax.UUCP (Patrick Bockert) (07/25/85)

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to
the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence,
a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

                                                -Missionaria Protectiva,
                                                 Text QIV (decto)