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great people are almost always bad people

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.06.02

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; great people are almost always bad people. I'd heard the first part of this famous quote by "Baron Acton", but not that last bit. Happily, not a lot of great people about these days.

rand()m quote

I think natural selection must have greatly rewarded the ability to reassure oneself in a crisis with complete bullshit.

—Bob Harris