Food for Thought: Corruption.

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Food for Thought: Bamboozled.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

~ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark