Groups often have commendable reasons for seeking power when they first start out; they have some goal they want to accomplish, and accomplishing said goal is difficult without power. So they said about gathering power. The trick is, you can either be corrupt in your pursuit of power, which can compromise your core principles, or you can try not to be corrupt, which means you must spend a considerable amount of effort building a power base, as the honest ways of gathering power are slower. That can then distract you from what you started out doing. Either way, you cannot have as pure a focus on your core principles as you did when you were small and powerless. This is the way the world works.
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| — | From Shadowrun sourcebook “Conspiracy Theories”. I just really like the way they state a constant truth that people try to ignore. |
