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“If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.”

Ifs Way Victim Israel Tragic Reverse Persecution Power Corrupts

Book:Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70

Source: Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70

“We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”

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Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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Author:Lord Acton

“There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.”

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Book:Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin