Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
This is a variant on Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904}
Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Writer, Green Mars, 1993
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
Critics ask, “If legal authorities are so corrupted by making others suffer, why do they continue to do it, and why so much official corruption? Mises never provided an answer to this dilemma.
This is a logically equivalent phrasing of Lord Acton’s famous quote: {292904}.
This was utilized (without attribution) to attack the press by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in a famous campaign speech in 1931.
- Born: March 23, 1952
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Writer
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American writer of science fiction. He has published nineteen novels and numerous short stories but is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. Robinson's work has been labeled by The Atlantic as "the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."
