"Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it……" — Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton."

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