Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.