History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and the most active. (John W. Campbell)

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and the most active.

John W. Campbell

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