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Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Quotes: He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it.
         

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander


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Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.



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Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.



The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.



House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.



Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.



The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke



He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.



How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

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