Best quotes by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Power
Checkout quotes by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Power
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‟ There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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‟ We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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‟ The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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‟ If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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‟ Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita