It is useless to trust in the virtue of some individual or set of individuals. The philosopher king was dismissed long ago as an idle dream, but the philosopher party, though equally fallacious, is hailed as a great discovery. (Note: This book was published in 1938).
Source: Power, a new social analysis, 1938, by Bertrand Russell
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