Woodrow Wyatt: Doesn't it very often happen that the person who wants the good things also wants power because he's rather vain?
Bertrand Russell: Yes, it does very often happen, all because the sheer love of power outweighs the wish to get this or that done. That is why Lord Acton was quite right to say that power corrupts, because pleasure in the exercise of power is something that grows with experience of power.
Source: Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, 1960.
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