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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

"Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, (pp. 24-25), 1971.
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.