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"And as within the human heart there is set an
instinct for all its real duties,--an instinct which you cannot quench,
but only warp and corrupt if you withdraw it from its true purpose;--as
there is the intense instinct of love, which rightly disciplined,
maintains all the sanctities of life, and misdirected, undermines them;
and must do either the one or the other; --so there is in the human heart
an inextinguishable instinct, the love of power, which, rightly directed,
maintains all the majesty of law and life, and misdirected, wrecks
them.
~John Ruskin (1819-1900)~
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