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[Alain Schremmer]

> WARNING:  OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT

On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> WARNING:  OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>>
>>> On 3 Apr 2007, at 19:10, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>>> Of course: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts  
>>>> absolutely. (Lord Acton.)
>>> From   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg- 
>>> Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
>>> Actually it is
>>>
>>> 	Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
>>
>> Thanks for the correction but it's too bad: I like the short  
>> version better.
>
> It is not a correction, just another story. The shorter version  
> (which is closer, if not equivalent to the reality) is the last  
> item in the list of Famous Sayings of Lord Acton given on the page  
> accessible from the above link.

Now, that one I really like. In extenso, it is

“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few  
hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get  
control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power  
corrupts absolutely.”

So relevant these days in which the concentration of power is  
historically unprecedented …

Regards
--schremmer
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