"If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient."

-- Ben Moreell

#Long Quotes #Office Quotes #Seductive Quotes

“For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.”
“And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.”
“What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.”
“Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Feb 08, 2011
“By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?”
“Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Source : "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
“Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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