* Leadership in an amoral world
requires more pragmatism, less ideology and no sense of decency or humanity.
* The only thing an amoral
leadership can accomplish is to reproduce itself. Meanwhile, the path carved by
moral leadership can have many pitfalls, but the few milestones reached along
the way make all the difference.
* Real Realists are not simply
disillusioned idealists; they are self-loathing ones set on destroying the very
ideals which they once upheld as well as the very people and events that remind
them of them.
* The worst conspirators are the
ones who conspire against themselves first and foremost. Yet, they are these
conspiracies against one’s own interests that often prove the most successful.
People, then, are better at conspiring against themselves than against others.
* A casual observer becomes an
active participant after a certain period of in indeterminable length has
elapsed, even if they continued to refrain from action. For this reason, those
who do not want to participate in something should not observe it, not even
casually. For observation is essentially participation.
* Hubris tends to fry the brains
it infects, and to silence the consciences it so gently caresses. Hubris is how
all victories end. This is why the wise avoid seeking victory, and opt for the
establishment of a new balance between their competing interests.
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