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From: bockert@bgsuvax.UUCP (Patrick Bockert)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory
Subject: Power and Corruption
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 11:43:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 11:43:07 1985
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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)