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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

-John Dalberg-Acton

-John Dalberg-Acton

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"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door." (youtube.com)

-Rust Cohle

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