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Old 14-03-2008, 16:04   #11
jambutty
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Cool Re: Food for thought

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Originally Posted by blazey View Post
I think there are many people who would make good dictators. Pinochet was a 'good' dictator in my opinion!
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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