Corruption: 'Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.'

Corruption: 'The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.'

Jealously: 'There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.'

Intention: 'The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.'

The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence.

...there came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.