Gloating is a great joy, isn't it? To have your enemy in your power - there's nothing sweeter is there?

And then [he] wondered why he would think of such a useless question at a time like this

Your mother surrounds you every moment,' she said. 'I know, because I feel her love for you in my own arms, around you now.

As long as no one said anything, he could pretend that it was love. That she felt about him as he felt about her

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

'Another war is always coming: They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, …

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general pre…