“There are no tyrants if there are no slaves.”
“Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.”
“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
“The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago”