"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
― George Bernard Shaw
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Men
― George Bernard Shaw
More From George Bernard Shaw
- "Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
- "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
- "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
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- "Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood."― F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."― Thomas Huxley
- "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."― Samuel Johnson