Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

—William Gaddis

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About William Gaddis

Portrait of William Gaddis

William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.

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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

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So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

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