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The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.
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For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.
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Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.
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It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.
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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Born:
December 4, 1911
Died:
March 3, 1983
(aged 71)
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