"The aim of politics is not to make people better or to alleviate their misery: it is to increase the power of one man or group of men against the power of another man or group of men. Our enemies are never as bad as we make them out to be, and we are never as good as we think. We're convinced that we're moral. And we know damn well that our enemy is only out for power and resources, but has no morals at all. Yet, we too, are out for power and resources. And our enemy, like us, has a moral sense. He uses that moral sense just as we do, to narrow aperture of this consciousness and ignore hiw appetite for power." - Morgenthau
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