Police are inevitably corrupted.... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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John Steinbeck
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
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George Deacon
I have brought peace to this land, and security, " he began." And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single...
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Iain Pears
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
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Suzy Kassem
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS...
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Rudyard Kipling
More Quotes By Frank Herbert
There is no escape–we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, " Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class...
