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Monday, 23 April 2007

QUOTES OF THE DAY

Saturday, Sunday and Monday’s papers are dominated with the “cash for honours” scandal. The lesson? Power corrupts!

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene

Posted by PETER SHAW at 2:25 pm

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