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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President Trump seems to be half-convinced that he could aim for the Nobel Peace Prize, flattered by his supporters. The theme of the sixth episode of the BBC TV interview series, which aired in the spring of 1959 and consisted of 13 episodes, was 'Power.' Russell’s statement sounds as if he were talking about President Trump, who is driven by the love of power, but how much is Trump himself aware of this?
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