One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria

Fear is the mind killer

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!