A Quote for Sunday

Here's a great insight (it certainly never occurred to me, but makes a lot of sense) from the noted author (of the novel Dune, for one) Frank Herbert (1920-1986):

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."