The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.