"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts……" — Frank Herbert

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

— Frank Herbert

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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. — Jeff Bezos
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. — Ambrose Bierce
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. — George W. Bush
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. — Jean Cocteau
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become… — Thomas Aquinas
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