The Virtues of Power

But what if one were to peer behind that yellow mask and bear witness to truth’s horrific fącade? He would, brave man that he must be to dare such a feat, learn that power does not corrupt. He would learn that all moral wisdom in regard to power is worse than mere hackery, that the inverse of common belief is truer to reality.

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Violence

There is no escape from this uncomfortable reality: power—by means of violent force—is the backing of all laws and of all systems of laws; it is that which determines whom is sovereign, and for how long, and how far his power extends over the will of others.