"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."

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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

— Etienne de La Boetie