14-03-2008, 16:04
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Re: Food for thought
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Originally Posted by blazey
I think there are many people who would make good dictators. Pinochet was a 'good' dictator in my opinion!
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If you ignore the thousands of Argentineans who just went missing, never to be heard of again, then he probably was and if you were one of his chosen few cohorts.
I don’t know who coined this phrase but it is a relevant today as it has been for millennia.
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Even God couldn’t resist becoming a “do as I say not as I do” dictator.
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