It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. It is the best things that can be most vilely corrupted. It takes a beautiful woman to make a really successful prostitute. It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies as young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. G. K. Chesterton. Boldness becomes rarer the higher the rank.