Power Corrupts

Lord Acton: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

But power is like a mirror. If you are potentially ready to be corrupted, power gives you the chance; if you are not potentially corruptible, then it is impossible for power to corrupt you. However, human life has many strange aspects to it. Only the potentially corruptible person moves toward power. The potentially good person has no desire for it because good can manifest without power. There is no need for good to have power. The will-to-power is the need of a corrupted being, because he knows that without power he will not be able to do what he wants to do.

Anything that needs power from outside is not good. It is something intrinsically impotent; it will live on borrowed life.

Kahlil Gibran made little story of beauty and ugliness, that ugliness took beauty's clothes and run away Only ugliness needs something to hide itself behind, to help it pretend---to have a false mask.