Saturday, May 10, 2008

A MIS ATTRIBUTED QUOTE


Little known fact:



More often than not the qoute " Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely " is wrongly attributed to Machiavelli because of the Machiavellian theory suggests that a clever demagogue, employing deception is democracy’s ultimate end. What follows, predictably, is a universal catastrophe. "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" was An observation that a person’s sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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