America, here's the [art of] the deal [with the devil]--
"I offer power. If you want harlotry in fancy dress, power will get it for you. Admiration?--a whole world aches to kiss its backside with slobbering lips. A crown? Power and a little knife will put it on your head. Change? With power you can try on cities like hats, or smash them if you tire of them. Power attracts loyalty and requires none. The will to power keeps a baby suckling grimly long after he is fed, counsels a brother to take his brother's toy, reaps a gaggling harvest of concupiscent girls. What drives a knight through tortures to his prize or death? The power of fame. Why does a man heap up property he cannot use? Why does a conqueror take countries he will never see? What makes a hermit grovel in the black filth of a cell but the promise of power? What crime is there that does not become a virtue in the hands of power?
"It is the one possession that does not flag or become tedious, for there is never enough of it and an old man in whom the juices of all other desires are dried up will crawl on his tortured knees toward his grave still grabbing with frantic hands for power."
--The right legendary, Morgan le Fey
