Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw
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  1. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  2. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Byron

  3. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. - Arthur Schopenhauer

  4. Compromise is a stalling between two fools. - Stephen Fry

  5. Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores... - Baruch Spinoza

More Quotes By George Bernard Shaw
  1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

  2. What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

  3. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  4. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  5. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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