Rephrasing of your motto: don’t build a huge empire, because eventually that empire will grow corrupt.
Not my motto! Though a tempting generalization of it. My motto is “only build a huge empire if you actually really tried very hard to not make it corrupt and you are actually really pretty sure that in-expectation your empire will bend the future more towards goodness and justice than what it replaced”.
Not my motto! Though a tempting generalization of it. My motto is “only build a huge empire if you actually really tried very hard to not make it corrupt and you are actually really pretty sure that in-expectation your empire will bend the future more towards goodness and justice than what it replaced”.
See also my controversial follow-up post: Let goodness conquer all that it can defend.