Power
“Warfare is based on deception.”
Text from the included edition · Chinese
“兵者，詭道也。”
— Sun Tzu, 孫子兵法
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right and obedience into duty.”
Text from the included edition · French
“Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maitre, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit & l'obéïssance en devoir.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social (Le contrat social)
“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
— Machiavelli, The Prince
“The history of all hitherto existing society... is the history of class struggles.”
— Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
“A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline.”
— Machiavelli, The Prince
“Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
— Machiavelli, The Prince
“Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.”
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan