power-corrupts

Caine has Drake and Orc, Panda and Chaz, and I hear Mallet has made peace with him. And maybe a half dozen other guys.___re you afraid of them?_ Astrid asked him.__eah, Astrid, I am.___kay,_ she said. __ut you were scared of going into a burning building, too.___ou don__ get this, do you?_ Sam demanded with enough heat that Astrid took a step back. __ know what you want, okay? I know what you and a bunch of other people want. You want me to be the anti-Caine. You don__ like the way he__ doing things and you want me to go kick him out. Well, here__ what you don__ know: even if I could do all that, I wouldn__ be any better than him.___ou__e wrong about that, Sam. You__e____hat night when I first used the power? When I hurt my stepfather? How do you think I felt?___ad. Regretful._ Astrid looked at his face like the answer would be written there. __cared, probably.___eah. All that. And one more thing._ He held up his hand and inches from her nose squeezed his fingers into a tight fist. __ also felt a rush, Astrid. A rush. I thought, oh my God, look at the power I have. Look what I can do. A huge, crazy rush.___ower corrupts,_ Astrid said softly.__eah,_ Sam said sarcastically. ____e heard that.___ower corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I forget who said it.___ make a lot of mistakes, Astrid. I don__ want to make that mistake. I don__ want to be that guy. I don__ want to be Caine. I want to_ He spread his arms wide, a gesture of helplessness. __ just want to go surfing.___ou won__ be corrupted, Sam. You wouldn__ do those things._ He had moved back. She moved to close the distance.__ow can you be so sure?___ell, two reasons. First, it__ not your character. Of course you felt a rush from the power. Then, you pushed it away. You didn__ grab at it, you pushed it away. That__ reason number one. You__e you, you__e not Caine or Drake or Orc.__am wanted to agree, wanted to accept that, but he felt he knew better. __on__ be so sure.___nd reason number two: you have me,

They ordered the exterminationof all minds they couldn't control

Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.